Couple on honeymoon rescue 20 babies from burning building

A couple from Rhode Island was in Spain during their honeymoon when they saw a building on fire and sprang into action. 

Doran Smith and David Squillante went to Barcelona, Spain last month for their honeymoon, two years after their wedding. The trip had been postponed like many people due to the pandemic and travel restrictions. 

According to CBN, the couple was on a tour in Barcelona Park when they noticed a woman frantically run out of a nearby building. 

"I saw a flame coming out of the doorway next to the door that these women had come out of," Smith shared with WJAR-TV. "So I said, 'Oh my God, there's a fire.'"

Her husband's father and grandfather had both been firefighters and without really thinking, Squillante jumped into action. 

"Instinct took over. I found myself looking at 15, 20 babies sleeping, and immediately just kind of lined everyone up, and we started grabbing them, putting them into the crib."

Even though Squillante didn't speak the same language as the woman who ran the nursery, they worked together to rescue the infants. 

"We were just literally taking cribs with a few kids in [them] and rolling them across the street to the high school lobby," says Smith who helped her husband. 

Knowing all the babies and people in the burning building were out of danger, the married couple continued their tour. 

Squillante shared, "But yeah, it turned out to be OK, you know?" His wife, Smith, said, "It was wild."