Miracle catch

I'm just weepy about this. This has always been one my greatest fears since we also live on the third floor. I have a ladder for us to use in a situation like this but I wonder if I'd be able to get it set up to use.

http://www.wnbc.com/news/5540879/detail.html

Mom Tosses Baby From Burning Window

NEW YORK -- A Bronx mother, cornered by smoke and flames, prayed as she tossed her 1-month-old baby from a third-floor window to the crowd below.

"I said, 'God, please save my son,"' a weeping Tracinda Foxe, 30, told the Daily News in Thursday editions. "I prayed that someone would catch him and save his life."

Her prayers were answered by Felix Vazquez, 39, a Housing Authority supervisor and former lifeguard, who made the catch and gave the baby, Eric Guzman, mouth to mouth resuscitation.

"I didn't think," Vazquez, a father of three, said after the Wednesday morning rescue. "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. Mother and son were treated at a hospital and released.

The new hero, by the way, is also a catcher on his local baseball team.