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Subscribe to RSSA desperate mother threw her baby out the second-floor window of a Queens, N.Y., home that was engulfed by a suspicious blaze early Thursday, fire authorities and witnesses said.
The child, who couldn't have been more than 2 or 3 years old, landed safely in the arms of civilians who gathered on the sidewalk next to the flaming building, said Dan Delargy, one of the first FDNY responders with Ladder 155.
Delargy said the baby came flying out the window as he was walking in the front door of the Jamaica home.
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"As we were getting set up, the lady couldn't wait for us and she dropped her baby out the window," Delargy said. "She was hanging out as far as she could and there were civilians walking by and they caught the baby."
The child and mother are expected to be fine. Nine people, including three firefighters, were sent to the hospital with minor smoke-related injuries, the FDNY said. It wasn't clear if the baby or mother were among those victims.
Fire officials got the call of the blaze at the private home on Rockaway Boulevard just before 3 a.m. The fire was contained to the second floor.
The cause of the fire is unknown at this time, but officials are considering it suspicious.
Captain Anthony Varriale said the blaze appears to be intentionally set.
The fire began in a public hallway of the home, Varriale said, which is an automatic warning sign. Such a starting place tends to suggest arson because there is no source that would contribute to such intense flames so quickly, he said.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Nice catch
YAY!!!...two points.
What about the mom? D=
This is news I like to hear where they report on people doing good things, but I am curious why they didn't mention how the mom fared.
Tom Brady could have used some hands like those a couple of weeks ago!
Isn't Tom Brady a Quarterback? Not a receive?
NBC New York says the mother is fine. MSNBC copied everything from the original article except that part.
Why yes Christy. And if his receivers had hands like the people that caught the baby............? See sweetheart?
Sirla / Christy -
#1. guess if we are talking about the mom making the throw - Tom Brady
#2. if we are talking about the people catching the baby - Wes Welker
Judges Rule: They believe Sirla meant #2 - therefore two points for Christy hahahahahah
This game is now being played under protest. By no means did Sirla think ANYONE would be dumb enough to think anything other than "If Tom Brady's receivers, had used their hands, like the subjects on the receiving end of the baby toss......."
In the future, will try to leave any guessing out of the jokes for those who are slow readers.
Um, it says right in this article that the child AND mother are fine....?
RwEvans,
If they were beyond the arch it would be a 3.
The catch was fine it was the spike afterwards that was excessive.
Sirlafalot
A) By your wording alone, anyone would assume that you were implying that Tom Brady needs to be better at catching and not that he needs his team mates to be better. Its not Christy's fault the wording of your joke was grammatically incorrect. Perhaps it might have been more effective to say "Tom Brady's team could have used some hands like those a couple of weeks ago!" Thus eliminating any confusion. Unless of course your statement was a satirical commentary on Gisele Bündchen's comments post Super Bowl that implied that Tom Brady played the entire game by himself....and I'm sure that's what your intentions were.
B) Once again, as with your first post, the wording of your 3rd implies that people who read slow would miss a joke you wrote that was not clearly written. In actual fact a slow reader would most likely get the joke where a person who reads fast might not. A fast reader sometimes has a tendency to scan a sentence moving on to the next while their brain process what was previously read, much like walking into a room and quickly scanning it with your eyes instead of taking time to take in your surroundings. I believe a better way to insult readers who are unable to decipher your poorly worded jokes is to say "In the future, will try to leave any guessing out of the jokes for those readers who are slow(minded)."
c) Maybe you should take any guess work out of your jokes. That way you don't have to waste your time posting passive aggressive responses to others who nicely correct you.....Okay, Sweetheart?
sgbear: paragraph 5, line 1 - The child and mother are expected to be fine.
Wait a second here.. I thought this story was about a baby being saved from a burning building? not some crappy football player.
Keep on topic guys, the Giants won. Get over it.
Rose colored wins! Thanks!
Rose Colored Glases....you must be the life of the party?
Gotta waste some more time here with the reaction to Sirlaf's comment. I believe if Rose and the others here that missed the meaning of Sir's joke knew something about the game of football, specifically in this case the dropped passes by New England's receivers in the most recent Super Bowl game, they would not be wasting their time trying to correct Sir's comment based on their inability to understand it. I'm just a public school grad, but most of us got it the first time.
An especially gracious thanks to you Ron. I liked it fine the way it was myself. Sorry to waste so many minutes, for such a dramatic loss of yardage. Reminds me of when Brady.......
Don't ya just hate it when an analogy goes awry? I hate that! I am pretty sure that most of us got it as it was first written.
I know! It's like.....was Tom supposed to throw the ball/baby AND catch it? I'm no semi-ugly supermodel or anything, but even I know that's not gonna happen.
VERY nice catch!
Good Job!
Made my day.
"... blaze at the private home..." and "... fire began in a public hallway...". I'm confused ... was this a private home or a multi-family home? So glad the baby is OK; they don't say whether the Mom is OK, but I certainly hope so!
its a private apartment building. the public hall is a common area that tends to be open to anyone who can get into the building.
No where in the article does this say it was a single family residence. A lot of homes are old hotels, and apartment buildings which share a common hallway, (public).
Do news like this make anyone else watch out for falling babies when they walk outside?
Yes, and now it will make me more anxious as I'm a terrible klutz and not very good at catching things!
You know your umbrella will be of no use at all when it's raining babies.
My understanding is that dwarf tossing is illegal... but baby tossing???
I hope the receiver didn't spike the kid after the catch.
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Really heart-warming story. Well done.
Stories like this make me feel good in the morning. But what's the point of offering tips on how to camouflage arson?
Yeah cuz one couldn't just google it themselves. Come on!
Yeah, that "public" hallway confuses me, too. My private home doesn't have any public hallways. And I'm wondering about the mom, too. Surely they could have included her status in the story.
Well done Mom.
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I believe by "public", they did not mean it in the traditional sense of public vs. private . . . instead they meant a "common" hall shared by multiple people/rooms within the residence.
The kid must've been drinking Red Bull! :-)
All joking aside, I'm glad the baby is safe.
Sirlafalot. Thank goodness Tom Brady lost. Boston fans are arrogant in every way. It's time to make them go back in their whole and cry. And remember spygate? They should never have a title again. Ever.
Back in their WHOLE? Thank God I was educated in Boston.
Wonderful that both Mom and Baby are ok. Nice to read some good news once in a while.
How did the mother get out? And if she didn't throw herself out the window, why did she need to throw the baby out at that moment? Was the baby thrown out with bathwater? Poorly written story.
Was wondering the same exact thing...
Maybe there was a lot of smoke coming in and the mother was afraid she wouldn't make it out. She did the right thing.
Stories on here are getting worse and worse every day. Clearly, there was a lot of smoke, maybe Mom wanted to make sure the baby was fine before she was?
The story also said the fire was contained to the second floor. I assume (dangerously) that she escaped through the window as well.
stoopid...
Are you proposing that she should of just waited and hoped that her baby didn't die of smoke inhalation? Obviously she felt it was a life or death situation and was trying to do what was best under the circumstances..
yeah, generally I advocate waiting until the last minute before tossing your baby out of a window. Also, never throw the bathwater out with it.
GREAT CATCH !
and BRAVO to a quick thinking MOM!
Glad there is finally a HAPPY ENDING to an EVENT so HORRIFIC !
I'm constantly amazed at how far off track these treads get - and so quickly......glad it all turned out okay for mom and baby....
A little bit of levity goes a long way when all we seem to read about anymore is death and mayhem. Just passing some time. We are all happy that mom and baby are okay. It's a happy ending. Smile!
Things like this remind me of an egg toss, not sure why!
Better than a salad toss.
Good thing the civilians who caught him weren't Patriots receivers. Reminds me of the joke where Lynn Swann was walking by this burning building and a rescue crew was trying to convince a woman to throw her kid down to them and she wouldn't to it. Lynn Swann shouted up at her, "Hey, lady! This is Lynn Swann. The best receiver in the NFL. You know I can catch your kid, Throw him down here!" The lady says, "Oh yeah! You're the greatest! Here he comes!" She throws the kid out the window, Swann makes a spectacular catch, the crowd starts cheering....And Swann spikes the kid into the lawn. Oops! Seriously, am glad the kid and mom are OK.
"The child and mother are expected to be fine."
nice catch...when the fire freak is caught, maybe some bat to knees will enlightened him. old school>take away broken parts for better living.
Sad thing is that you know some a$$ out there is going to try to get the mother in trouble for child endangerment. "She dropped the infant out a window into the arms of strangers" leaving out the part about the building they were in being on fire.
As a liberal judge from the great state of State-sota, I would not have the jury consider the circumstances as related to the case. What if there were no "strangers" to catch the child? What if the "strangers" ran away with the child? In otherwords, there were 99 actions that could have happened that would harm the child and just 1 action that would save the child. 99% vs 1%. In this country we look down upon the 1%. Thus, the "strangers" are wrong for their action.
Same thing happened in my hometown years ago. Mother perished along with 2 small children. She had people yelling for her to drop the kids and they would catch them. She was only on 2nd floor.
Glad mother and child are fine and a big thank you to the person who caught the child.
Now that the mother is out and doing well, how long until she's charged with child-endangerment for dropping the kid out a window and counting on non-emergency persons to catch it? Stay tuned....
"A baby got thrown from the window."
"The catch it went off without hitch."
"Instead of being consumed by the fire."
"It was caught below by some......SHAVING cream."
"Be nice and clean."
When I lived in an apartment I thought about what would happen in such a situation. I would have done the same thing. Toss out my child. From the second floor it would have been a logical thing. Third or forth floor, too high.
I understand your post. Yet there will be a point where there is no other choice but to drop or lower your child to safety from the third or fourth floor. Sad to say there were those who jumped from the World Trade Center's 100th floor, taking that zillion to 1 chance to survive.
I agree. The World Trade Center fires and those poor people who jumped really illustrated for me just how horrible it must be to be in a burning building with flames at your back. It's beyond my comprehension. At that point there must have been no other option for them. How do you choose between being burned alive or jumping from a height that you know will result in your death?
For parents who find themselves in a burning building with a baby its probably the same feeling, regardless of the height. What a terrifying situation. I'm glad the mom and child are okay.
I live on the second floor of an apartment complex. I have a "fire ladder" for the escape reason. But if I can not get to it or something, I planned on making some sort of harness out of blankets and lowering him down. I do not think I could live in a high-rise for the very "what would happen if there is a fire" reason.