A family of a desperately ill man got to say their last goodbyes to him in a locked down residential care home after firemen lifted them up to his fourth-floor window on an extendable ladder.
The family were told that Henry Nijhove, 87, was unlikely to live much longer after his health took a turn for the worse. Although he was not ill with the coronavirus, restrictions on elderly care homes hindered his family's hopes of visiting him.
But when Amsterdam fire brigade were notified of the problem by Henry's granddaughter, Chante, they agreed to help. She told them she desperately wanted to make sure that her grandfather did not die without the chance to say goodbye.