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The unemployed subway hero who saved a baby in a stroller after it was swept by a strong wind onto an elevated subway track in Brooklyn was reunited with the family on Wednesday – right after getting a new job.
“That’s the little man that got me a job today,” Delroy Simmonds told the New York Daily News.
Simmonds visited the boy and his mother Wednesday at Brookdale Hospital, where the child was being treated for a small head injury. The baby is expected to be OK.
Simmonds said the mother thanked him, and he shrugged off talk about his heroism. He pointed out that he's a father and would expect anyone else to do the same for his child.
"I don't really feel like much of a hero," he told NBCNewYork.com. "I didn't really think, I just reacted."
Simmonds was on his way to a job interview at about 1 p.m. Tuesday when a powerful blast of air carried the stroller from the elevated track onto the J train platform at Van Siclen Avenue. The baby and stroller both landed on the tracks.
Simmonds immediately jumped onto the tracks, rescuing the baby before the next train came into the station.
Simmonds missed his job interview but says he was offered a job only a day later as a maintenance worker at Kennedy Airport on Wednesday. He starts in two weeks.
“Thank you, Lord. Thank you, thank you, thank you,” Simmonds told the Daily News was his response to the job offer. “I’m just excited to start working.”
Simmonds said he received a slew of employment offers Wednesday from people who heard of the incident.
“It says a lot about his character that he would jump on the tracks to save a little boy,” Guy Rodriguez, project manager for the janitorial company, told the Daily News. “We are happy to hire Delroy. We are honored.”
NBCNewYork.com contributed to this report.
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Well, at least he is working now, not wasteing time in a subway staition.
Mom really needs to keep a tighter hold on the stroller, how rude to make someone else take care of her mess. People are just plain thoughtless these days.
The thoughtless person, Chris150, is you! A man saved a baby - that is good news!
He isnt even called Chris, but only Chirs,... "curse" for English speakers. At least this Chirs isnt in a railwaystation wasting his time, or is he...?
@Chirs150
I'm sure she knew the gust of air was about to hit at that exact moment, but just decided to ignore it. By your reasoning, she should have had a white knuckle grip on the stroller handles. Growing up in NYC I know how it is when those winds just whip up out of nowhere and can literally take you by surprise. A stroller can become a kite in less than a second. don't be so holier-than-thou.
Also, neither you nor I were there, so do like I do and don't judge. Just be glad the baby is alright.
Duh - He was not wasting time in a subway station - he was heading to a job interview.
Can you not read?
Chirs, you must be an angry GOP voter. Evil, just evil.
Reading these posts is like a field trip to a mental institution. You look through the little hole in the door and take a quick glimpse of the lunatic inside babbling some half coherent nonsense about this or that and you think to yourself, "Self, there is some real crazy sh1t going down in this place." Then, you go home and have a real conversation with people who have a tight grip on reality.
Folks, just have a look at Chirs150's other posts. He is constantly trolling, apparently just to get a reaction. DNFTT.
Douche! He wasn't wasting (or wasteing, as you misspelled it) time in a subway station. If you bothered to read the article, he was on his way to an interview at the time. Open your eyes, dumb ass.
Why not just say, "Thank God for this guy and what he did"? That would cover it.
"wasting time in subway station.."
way to go to knock a good caring person who was On His Way to A Job Interview!
not everyone has a car you know.
Chirs150:: For your information, in some cities you take a subway to get from Point A to Point B-- and in order to get on a subway you have to be at a stop in a subway station. Guess you live in some hick town that has just one stoplight and it blinks all the time, so you wouldn't know how people in cities live.
And your comment about people being thoughtless these days-- that was a thoughtless statement written by a thoughtless person.
Now go back to the doll house with the rest of the dolls. A doll is an empty-headed plaything and you fit right in that category.
Curse, go over to Faux News; you will be welcome there. This story may serve as a testament that employment status and the color of one's skin doesn't reveal anything about their character. Curse's post is a testament that reading and comprehension do not come easy to the typical moron.
Good for him, now that he has a job it will be easier for him to move up as time goes by.
It was always easier to get a job when you already had one, more so in this economy.
chris150 are you really that ignorant, a man saves a child and all you can do is comment negatively? This man is a hero, you on the other hand would probably take pictures as the train pulled in on the child! the mother did nothing wrong so why don't you go and find some train tracks and jump-I personally would stand there and watch the train run over you!!!
The mother didn't secure the stroller from the strong blast of air, which I found to be thoughtless. When I'm around train tracks, I stand firmly, so the air does not blow me onto the tracks, along with securing my belongs. I'm just saying she should be more thoughtful. That and glad he found a job. Sorry you can't wish people well. gee.
Hi mr. Curse 150... I mean Chirs... Not very thoughtfull of you anyway, as you didnt read the article before posting. That hero wasnt wasting time at the station to begin with. He had a jobinterview. That is why he was there in the first place.,...
"... I stand firmly, so the air does not blow me onto the tracks,..."
Well I stand kinda loose so you can blow me.
Wow, lots of haters. To each is own though. I saw he was on the way to a job interview, and had it been me, I would have been more focused on that, not looking around. Going over questions to ask, last minute preprations and what not. That is why I found it thoughtless of the woman to just be not paying attention to the stroller, and disturb the poor guy. Why else did she not jump onto the tracks. Clearly paying no attention at all.
lol @ cheetah
So glad this man has a job! Good work brings good work! Love it! So happy the baby will be all right. Thank you for saving this baby!
Can't say its not windy at that subway platform..in the video looks like the news reporter was almost blown off the platform..windy there from what I see.
A bit gusty, yes. Breezy, yup. But windy enough to almost blow the reporter off the platform? No. From what I can see, the mother was, in all likelyhood, caught off guard. It happens. It was not neglect on her part. And the gentleman was on his way to a job interview. Glad he got one.
I'm glad he found a job but its not enough. An act like this deserves a great reward! I started a fundraising page for him as a reward... Please go here to donate and share with your friends:
sistatv you didn't list the site.
Always someone needs to exploit something to make money for themselves.
You started a fund for him? Like hell you did. You started a fund for you.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
sistatv has the exact kind of entitlement mentality which is working against the good will of humanity. We should all be willing to do a good deed without expecting a reward. That's what makes it a good deed in the first place.
Too bad that the lady bus monitor who was bullied couldn't share some of her 600k with this young man. What he did was save a life. A bit more important than putting up with adolescent bullying (which I do NOT condone by any means).
One thing has nothing to do with the other. You need some Ritalin for your ADD.
I am with Musicleader
Glad the guy saved the baby and got a job. Well done!
But a non-English speaking hispanic woman with 4 kids...
Amazing with all those anchor babies the carriage blew away in the wind.
Believe it or not, there are still people who come here legally.
Good for him, karma has a way to working out.
nice unassuming response as well..."im a dad...anyone would have done it...don't feel like a hero".
seems like a decent person.
loved he got so many job offers...
happy for him...hope life treats him well ...gets better and better...
Who wants to bet the taxpayers will be footing the hospital bill?
I feel sorry for you. You comment screams, "I'm a very unhappy person and will try my best to make life more miserable not just for myself but everyone else I can."
A normal person with a healthy state of mind would find nothing but good in this article BUT NOT YOU. You had to find a way to degrade it and this man's selflessness.
It's just so sad that you have such a negative attitude that even when something good happens you have to deminish it.
Why do you want everyone to be as surly as you? Why do you feel the need to inflict your negativity on everyone else?
DO you not understand that what you put out in the world is what you receive?
No, I'm simply choosing to focus on the cold hard facts of reality rather than the moonbat fairytale world.
I'm so glad this turned out so well. Good Job young man. But what's even more surprising is the state did not run in take the children and charge the mother with child endangerment like they are so quick to do these days with out a thought or care of what financial hardship they cause people who are poor or worse what that does to the children.
Come on NBC, you are a professional news organization, supposedly. Get the damn volume right on your video. It went totally dead at the end and was way too low throughout.
Wonderful..............we need to read more positive news like this!
My only question is, "What is a small head injury?"
this was the right way for this story to end.
Im glad to hear of young people that want to work instead of staying home to collect unemployment! Good luck to this Hero!