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Friday, December 16, 2005

I Got It, I Got It....

Nice catch:
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. A man who plays catcher for his employer's baseball team caught the infant safely.

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 hospital 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.

"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."
The video of this is pretty amazing. Nice job by one and all.

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