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12-15-2005, 10:28 AM
Associated Press
Dec. 15, 2005 07:10 AM
NEW YORK - A mother trapped in a burning third-floor apartment prayed and then dropped her 1-month-old son out a window to the crowd below. The infant was caught safely by a man who plays catcher for his employer's baseball team.
The rescuer gave the baby mouth-to-mouth resuscitation - a skill he picked up two decades ago as a teenage lifeguard - and the mother was rescued by firefighters. Both were treated at a hopsital and released.
Tracinda Foxe, 30, was cornered by smoke and flames in the Bronx apartment on Wednesday when she went to the window with son Eric Guzman.<!-- BOXAD TABLE -->
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"I said, 'God, please save my son,' " Foxe told the Daily News in Thursday editions. "I prayed that someone would catch him and save his life."
Felix Vazquez, 39, a Housing Authority supervisor, opened his arms and snared the baby.
"I didn't think," said Vazquez, a father of three. "I just reacted."
Moments later, firefighters D.J. Martin and Bobby Eustace burst into the burning apartment, found a hysterical Foxe and gave her an oxygen mask. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1215BabyCatch15-ON.html
Could you drop your infant from a third floor window? I don't know if I could...
Dec. 15, 2005 07:10 AM
NEW YORK - A mother trapped in a burning third-floor apartment prayed and then dropped her 1-month-old son out a window to the crowd below. The infant was caught safely by a man who plays catcher for his employer's baseball team.
The rescuer gave the baby mouth-to-mouth resuscitation - a skill he picked up two decades ago as a teenage lifeguard - and the mother was rescued by firefighters. Both were treated at a hopsital and released.
Tracinda Foxe, 30, was cornered by smoke and flames in the Bronx apartment on Wednesday when she went to the window with son Eric Guzman.<!-- BOXAD TABLE -->
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"I said, 'God, please save my son,' " Foxe told the Daily News in Thursday editions. "I prayed that someone would catch him and save his life."
Felix Vazquez, 39, a Housing Authority supervisor, opened his arms and snared the baby.
"I didn't think," said Vazquez, a father of three. "I just reacted."
Moments later, firefighters D.J. Martin and Bobby Eustace burst into the burning apartment, found a hysterical Foxe and gave her an oxygen mask. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1215BabyCatch15-ON.html
Could you drop your infant from a third floor window? I don't know if I could...