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December 17, 2005

Wow

The catch of a lifetime

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York woman threw her one-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 feetinto the arms of Housing Authority employee Felix Vazquez, one of several people waiting below.

Mom was later rescued and both are doing well.

Nice to have good news and to see heroes get a couple of column inches once in a while.

'Course, if this had taken place in Iraq ...

Posted by Darleen at December 17, 2005 12:35 PM

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