Life-saving catch: Kalamazoo Public Safety officer saves baby from fire

A Kalamazoo Public Safety Officer made what the department says is a life-saving catch.

Friday around 4 p.m., officers arrived to a house on fire with flames coming out of the roof on Washington Avenue in Kalamazoo, near James Street.

Dispatchers were on the phone with a mother who said she and her baby were trapped inside, the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety told me.

Police say body camera video of the incident captured the harrowing moment where dispatch lost contact with the mom.

Moments later, an officer spotted the mother through the upstairs window of the home. He told her to kick out the screen window and drop her baby to him…

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