Incredible footage shows firefighter catching child thrown from balcony
 

Incredible footage shows firefighter catching child thrown from balcony
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If you ever doubted the bravery of firefighters (for argument's sake, because why would anyone do that) let this video be the living proof that they are, in fact, heroes.

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On Monday DeKalb County Fire Department released helmet-cam footage, showing the moment when a firefighter caught a child who was thrown off the third story of a burning apartment building on 3 January in Decatur, Georgia.*


This wasn't the only child to be thrown from the building.*

"We were catching babies like a football — literally," County Fire Rescue Capt. Eric Jackson told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Read more...

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