1 / 7In a heartwarming show of bravery, a group of doctors completed an open heart surgery on a patient inside a Russian hospital that caught fire on Friday (April 2) as firefighters to battled to douse the flames from outside.2 / 7The Russian doctors stayed behind in the burning, tsarist-era hospital in the country’s Far East on Friday to complete the surgery after a fire broke out on the roof while they were operating.3 / 7The surgery continued thanks to the firefighters who used fans to keep smoke out of the operating room and ran in a power cable to keep it supplied with electricity.4 / 7It took the firefighters more than two hours to put out the blaze in the city of Blagoveshchensk.5 / 7As per a ministry statement 128 people were immediately evacuated from the hospital as the fire broke out on the roof and no one was reported hurt.6 / 7A group of eight doctors and nurses completed the operation in two hours before removing the patient to another site, the emergencies ministry said.7 / 7Lead surgeon Valentin Filatov said, “There’s nothing else we could do. We had to save the person.” “We did everything at the highest level, It was a heart by-pass operation,” the surgeon was quoted as saying by REN TV. Antonina Smolina, a medic said that 'there was no panic' among the hospital staff. 'The clinic was built more than a century ago, in 1907, and the fire spread like lightning through the wooden ceilings of the roof,' the ministry said.