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“Mom Tosses Baby Out of Burning Apartment

Thursday, December 15, 2005



NEW YORK — A mother trapped in a burning third-floor apartment prayed and then dropped her 1-month-old son out a window to the crowd below. The infant was caught safely by a man who plays catcher for his employer's baseball team.

The rescuer gave the baby mouth-to-mouth resuscitation — a skill he picked up two decades ago as a teenage lifeguard — and the mother was rescued by firefighters. Both were treated at a hospital and released.

Tracinda Foxe, 30, was cornered by smoke and flames in the Bronx apartment on Wednesday when she went to the window with son Eric Guzman.

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

Felix Vazquez, 39, a Housing Authority supervisor, opened his arms and snared the baby.

"I didn't think," said Vazquez, a father of three. "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.”

“YEA! I love hero stories.”

“How come we don't get to see this stuff on the evening news instead of all the nasty rotten news?

Thanks Noncom!”

“She'll probably be brought up on "child abuse" charges.”

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And little Johnny grew up to be a fighter pilot in the Navy.............(oops, wrong plane)
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“OMG...thats a great story!”

“Fox News is running the heck out of this story.

Figures, dang family values and all.... ;-)”

“Waiting for the other shoe to drop...

The real story will come out and actually it will be discovered that they set the fire to cover up the fact that they killed the baby's real mom so they could kidnap it.”

“.....after selling the babie's twin so they could buy more crack. And they're in this country illegaly!
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“Being a cynic is so much fun...!”

“I'm sure the movie rights are all ready in the process..."Crack Baby Terrorist Cell"
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“Oprah will have the mother, child and rescuerer on her show tomorrow.”

“i would Murder that baby, too. That's one ugly Baby!”

““i would Murder that baby, too. That's one ugly Baby!”
bearmagnet
1:12:50 PM
12/15/05
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LOL thats funny”

“Watched a video on the news just now

I mean of the falling baby, not the ugly one. Well........it could have been ugly but you can't really tell.”

“I saw this clip on ABC GMA today, they are all showing it.”