Transcript for Video captures rescue of residents and baby from apartment fire
We turn now to an incredible moment caught on camera. A nervewracking rescue in Dallas. An apartment building in flames, and a moment of sheer desperation. Take a look at this. Nabls rushing to help, watching as a toddler is dropped from a third floor window into their arms. Police going door to door to get everyone out. Here’s ABC’s linsey Davis. Reporter: Tonight, police body camera video shows the frantic moments at this Dallas apartment complex as police and residents race to help. Come on, come on, this way. Reporter: As flakeflames shoot through the roof. One woman forced to toss her baby out of a third floor window, begging for someone to catch her little boy. Safely caught in the arm’s of a stranger. Caught the baby with a curl on, just like you caught a football. Reporter: Officials say in all, six people had toll jump in order to escape. Some pulled a mattress from a downstairs apartment to cushion their falls. There was no way that those citizens were going to get out of that apartment complex except for out of those windows. Reporter: The fire broke out around 7:00 this morning. According to Dallas fire and rescue, two residents and a firefighter were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Thank god though those residents were there and they were so willing to help. Reporter: Tom, at this time, the cause of the fire remains unknown. Officials say that the building is too unstable for investigators to enter. Tom? An incredible rescue. All right, linsey, thank you.
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