Bodycam Captures the Moment a Kalamazoo Officer Caught a Baby Dropped From a Burning House
Dispatch had gone silent. Smoke was pushing through the second-floor window. A mother was standing in a burning Kalamazoo home with her baby in her arms and no way down.
Then Officer Michael Arnett looked up and said six words. “Hey, throw me your kid.”
She did not think twice. That split-second decision on May 15, 2026, is the only reason both of them walked away.
The Fire Had Already Cut Off Their Only Way Out
Crews from the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety responded at 4:16 p.m. to a two-story home on Washington Avenue in the Edison neighborhood…