Hero Dad Threw Baby Out The Window To Save Her From Fire

A seven-month-old girl was saved after her father threw her from a second-storey window into a blanket held by neighbours when the unit they were in was caught on fire.

The baby identified as Nevaeh Roze Hayes was in the Bruce Street unit block in Blacktown with her father when a fire started early on Tuesday morning.

Her father threw her down to neighbour Tony Finn, who used a blanket to ‘catch her like a football’.

Mr Finn told Nine News they were extra careful not to drop the baby. “When they dropped her, we thought we would have dropped her too because the adrenaline was kicking in. When we caught the baby, we used the blanket to catch her, I caught her like a football and I pulled her back into my chest so she didn’t bounce back up and hit and ground,” he said. He said that the baby was ‘smiling like an angel’ when they caught her.

NSW Police, NSW Fire and Rescue and paramedics immediately went to the burning residential unit block at around 7.35am after receiving several 000 calls to attend the three-level block of units, which had smoke coming from the second floor.

Superintendent Ian Krimmer from NSW Fire and Rescue told Daily Mail Australia that before firefighters arrived at the scene, they were advised that residents threw a baby from the balcony into a blanket that was held by other residents.

The baby’s father told Channel 7 that he decided to throw his baby out the window when he was surrounded by smoke in the second-storey apartment. “I’ve seen all this black smoke and I’ve tried to open my door and it’s just come flushing in. So I was trying to get out and then all my other neighbours came out with a blanket and I’ve had to throw my baby out the window into a blanket to get her out. And then we’ve come down on the ladder and there was black smoke everywhere,” he said.

Superintendent Krimmer said the baby escaped without any injuries and by the time firefighters arrived, 15 people had self-evacuated from the building.

A spokesperson from NSW Ambulance told Daily Mail Australia paramedics assessed a number of patients on the scene and transported four to Blacktown Hospital.

Superintendent Krimmer said the cause of the fire was still under investigation, but said the unit where the fire started had been severely damaged by the fire and other units had smoke damage. He then praised the actions of neighbours for helping to rescue the baby.

A statement from NSW Police said officers from Blacktown Local Area Command are at the scene and investigating the circumstances surrounding the fire. Initial inquiries have led police to believe the fire is not suspicious.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk