A Firefighter Catches a Child Tossed From a Burning Building
BERLIN - NOVEMBER 03: Firefighters perched on a ladder shoot water into a blaze in a second-storey apartment on November 3, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The fire occured in an apartment building near Nollendorfplatz and initial police reports indicated there were no injuries. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
A father tossed his child into the arms of a fireman as he evacuated his family from a burning apartment building. The father was on a ladder on the third floor. It happened recently near Atlanta, and several other children were rescued the same way.
One firefighter said, quote, “We were catching babies like a football . . . literally.”
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