Story highlights Footage of remarkable rescue in South Korea has been widely circulated

It shows a mother dropping her three children four floors before jumping herself

U.S. military personnel from a nearby air base orchestrated the rescue

(CNN) The scenario, captured in mobile phone footage, is a mother's nightmare.

On the fourth story of a burning building in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, a woman dangles her baby out the window as smoke billows from two floors below.

Onlookers scream and wave their hands as the 30-year-old mother holds out the terrified infant -- the child's legs kicking furiously -- before dropping her to the crowd.

Another child follows, then another, before the woman herself leaps from the window -- the only escape route.

Remarkably, all survived without injury Saturday, caught safely on blankets in a rescue effort orchestrated by passing U.S. service personnel stationed at nearby Osan Air Base.

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