Man Catches Baby…
Reuters reports this week of a woman who threw her baby down from a burning building, thankfully to an amateur baseball catcher and former lifeguard. Now that’s what I call lucky.
Man catches baby flung from burning NY building
Thursday December 15, 07:21 PMNEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York woman threw her 1-month-old son from the third floor of a burning building and the baby was caught by an amateur baseball player standing outside, media reports said on Thursday.
Local television stations aired a videotape of Wednesday’s dramatic rescue in the Bronx taken by a surveillance camera.
It showed the baby, swathed in white, tumbling some 30 feet (9 metres) into the arms of Housing Authority employee Felix Vazquez, one of several people waiting below.
The Daily News said firefighters rescued Tracinda Foxe from her apartment shortly after she tossed her baby to Vazquez, who plays catcher on a neighbourhood baseball team.
“I said ‘God, please save my son,’” Foxe was quoted as saying. “I prayed that someone would catch him and save his life.”
Vazquez, a 39-year-old former lifeguard, gave the baby mouth-to-mouth resuscitation before medics arrived and took mother and child to the hospital. Neither was seriously injured and they were later released.
Del Mak on The X-Factor this Weekend
From triad gangsta to choir boy in a year, see if you can spot my brother and an extra in this weekend’s X-Factor Final…