When disaster strikes, we become all too familiar with our most basic instincts. For many people, the classic fight-or-flight response holds true and if there's nobody to fight, they're guaranteed to head for the door.
Others are known to freeze up as the chaos unfolds and I've learned to my disappointment that my natural response tends to fall in this category.
And the full video provides a powerful glimpse of this type of person in action.
Some are keeping an eye on the babies in the cribs, while others sit on the couches to feed and otherwise care for the ones who need attention.
As The Guardian reported, the 5.5 magnitude quake mostly struck the city of Pohang and caused 70 injuries and "millions" of dollars of damage.
According to The Guardian, their suspicions were raised by the fact that the main shock of the quake occurred less than a mile from a plant where fracking was taking place.
These are both unusually shallow for earthquakes in the area and at similar depths to the fracking.
Which leads us to believe the actions took by these nurses were conscious, and extremely brave decisions — not a gut reaction.
Still, none of them hesitated to try and secure the cribs as best they could. They held them together to minimize how much the tremors affected the babies.
The team had every intention of joining efforts to evacuate the hospital, but there was something they needed to do first.
As Metro reported, the nurses put on special harnesses to ensure the infants would be strapped as securely to them as possible.
But since no deaths were reported as a result of the earthquake, it's fairly safe to assume that both the babies and the nurses got out relatively safely.
As Metro reported, one commenter said, "I love how they don’t waste time protecting those children. Nurses are real life superheroes."
“These nurses just kicked that concept out of the window. Hats off to people like them. Not sure I’d be able to do that if we switched places."
