HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – A Huntsville mother was forced to throw her baby out of a window when the apartment unit below hers caught fire on Eastbrook Drive on Wednesday. When smoke filled Jamarla Broomfield’s apartment, it quickly became a life or death situation.
“It was chaotic, the smoke was everywhere,” Broomfield said. “I was crying. It didn’t really feel real because I have never been in this type of situation before.”
She was trapped inside with her two-year-old daughter after her downstairs neighbor forgot he had food in the oven. The fire and smoke quickly spread to her second-story apartment…