THIS is the dramatic moment a hero caretaker rescues four babies from a blazing sixth-floor flat in Paris.

Incredible footage shows Fousseynou Cissé braving thick smoke and dizzying heights as he balances on the outer ledge of a burning apartment block, signalling urgently to those trapped inside.

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Fousseynou Cissé balanced precariously on a ledge as he saved four babies from a burning flat in Paris

A man rescuing people from a burning building.
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He coaxed one-and-a-half-year-old and five-month-old children across the gap

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CThe caretaker also managed to save two adults from the blazing flat
Through the blackened window, the 39-year-old can be seen coaxing desperate parents to hand over their children, one by one.

First, he carefully takes hold of a five-month-old baby, then passes the infant across to a man perched in a neighbouring building.

Moments later, he repeats the heroic act with a one-year-old child.

But the caretaker, who works at a local school, didn’t stop there.

He went on to rescue two more children and two adults from the inferno engulfing the building in northern Paris on Friday.

“I didn’t ask myself the question. Their lives were in danger. I didn’t think twice,” he told Le Parisien.

He revealed he had been lying on his sofa when he smelled smoke and spotted a mother holding her baby out of a window.

He told his wife to evacuate with their two-year-old, then ran straight into the chaos to help his neighbours.