Heroic firefighter saves baby from burning home in Staten Island
abode to retrieve a baby from the smoke-filled basement, then dramatically passed the child to another flame-eater through a window, officials said.
“Harper went down to the basement – there was a very heavy smoke condition – he found the baby on the bottom bunk of a bunk bed that was towards the back of the house.Children's book author and engineer husband exposed for double life in house of horrors “He saw that there was a window right there, and in an attempt to get the baby to the cleanest air possible as quickly as possible, instead of going through the apartment that he had just come through, he began to pass the baby just out into the fresh air,” Russell explained.
Two adults and two other children who had self-evacuated were also taken to the hospital, the department said.
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