Alameda County (CA) firefighters rescued three children plus a baby tossed by the mother to a waiting firefighter below from an apartment fire Tuesday.
The two-alarm fire gutted a San Leandro apartment building and displaced 12 people early Tuesday morning.
Responding firefighters encountered heavy fire and black smoke in a downstairs unit that blocked visibility in a stairwell, according to a Mercury News report (http://bit.ly/zGIlw6).
A woman and her children became trapped in an upstairs unit. The woman tossed her baby down from a balcony to a firefighters, then jumped to the ground. Firefighters searched upstairs and located two other children in a back bedroom and rescued them. Then another child jumped from an open window and landed on a car.
The victims suffered minor injuries from smoke inhalation. They were treated at a hospital and released.
View helmet cam video of the fire and read more at http://bit.ly/zGIlw6.
