yall heard about the man that caught the baby that was dropped 5 stories?
the video footage is ill.
Mayor honors Bronx baby-catcher
BY DAN JANISON AND HERBERT LOWE
STAFF WRITERS
A building superintendent who caught an infant boy thrown out of a burning third-floor apartment in the Bronx said Friday that "it's a beautiful feeling" to know he helped save the baby's life.
Felix Vasquez, a longtime Housing Authority supervisor who has been a catcher on the authority's softball team, also gave 1-month-old Eric Guzman mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after the child's mother threw the baby from the apartment on Wednesday.
Vasquez's heroics happened at the Gouverneur Morris Houses in Morrisania. He alerted firefighters to the situation and they rushed to the Third Avenue complex, rescuing the mother, Tracinda Foxe, 30, from the smoke-filled apartment.
Mother and baby were treated at a local hospital and released. Vasquez said he'd been told he was being named little Eric's godfather.
"It was a huge stroke of luck, perhaps divine providence, that Felix was standing there," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday while presenting him with the Bronze Medallion, the city's highest award for civic achievement.
While calling Vasquez "a real-life hero with hands of gold," Bloomberg joked that he has kissed babies but never caught any.
"Felix, a lot of amazing things happen in New York -- but I don't know that anyone has seen anything quite like this," the mayor said.
Vasquez, asked about what he and others have called a "great catch," said, "Everything happened so fast. When I found out later he was just a month old, it broke my heart. I'm glad I did what I did."
the video footage is ill.
Mayor honors Bronx baby-catcher
BY DAN JANISON AND HERBERT LOWE
STAFF WRITERS
A building superintendent who caught an infant boy thrown out of a burning third-floor apartment in the Bronx said Friday that "it's a beautiful feeling" to know he helped save the baby's life.
Felix Vasquez, a longtime Housing Authority supervisor who has been a catcher on the authority's softball team, also gave 1-month-old Eric Guzman mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after the child's mother threw the baby from the apartment on Wednesday.
Vasquez's heroics happened at the Gouverneur Morris Houses in Morrisania. He alerted firefighters to the situation and they rushed to the Third Avenue complex, rescuing the mother, Tracinda Foxe, 30, from the smoke-filled apartment.
Mother and baby were treated at a local hospital and released. Vasquez said he'd been told he was being named little Eric's godfather.
"It was a huge stroke of luck, perhaps divine providence, that Felix was standing there," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday while presenting him with the Bronze Medallion, the city's highest award for civic achievement.
While calling Vasquez "a real-life hero with hands of gold," Bloomberg joked that he has kissed babies but never caught any.
"Felix, a lot of amazing things happen in New York -- but I don't know that anyone has seen anything quite like this," the mayor said.
Vasquez, asked about what he and others have called a "great catch," said, "Everything happened so fast. When I found out later he was just a month old, it broke my heart. I'm glad I did what I did."
