A police officer in Michigan is being hailed as a hero after bodycam video shows him positioning himself under a second-story window of a burning building, telling a mother who was trapped inside to throw her baby down to him, and then catching the infant. The footage, released by the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, is going viral and has left many stunned.
NEW: Baby thrown out of a second-story window caught by a police officer as a house erupts in flames in Kalamazoo, Michigan.Bodycam shows a police officer rushing to a house fire where a mother and her infant were trapped on the second story.The officer instructed the woman… pic.twitter.com/RJk1CXE3nb
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The fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon on Washington Avenue in Kalamazoo, Michigan, trapping a mother and her infant on the second floor of a house engulfed in flames.
The fire reportedly destroyed the indoor staircase, prompting crews to use ladders to reach the second-story porch and enter the house. Most of the blaze was in the right half of the house, though it did spread to the attic, officials told a local media outlet…