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Firefighters Catch Babies Chucked Like ‘Footballs’ From Apartment Blaze

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Parents and adults were lobbying children into the waiting arms of firefighters during a raging apartment fire in a city outside of Atlanta.

A parent can be seen in the video tossing a child three stories to third-generation firefighter Capt. Scott Stroup, who then caught the wailing child and carried it away from the burning building before collapsing to his knees, according to a video posted to social media.

The video, which was posted by a firefighter’s union in DeKalb County, shows a parent climbing down a ladder from a third-floor balcony early on Jan. 3 before dropping the youngster. It is not clear from image weather or not the baby was intentionally dropped.

There were other adults chucking kids from the second and third story of the building, fire Capt. Eric Jackson told local reporters at the scene.

“We were catching babies like a football – literally,” he said about the hair-raising scene. “There were adults that were on the balcony that were dropping their babies right into our arms. We had a couple firefighters catching babies, so it was just really incredible.”

About a dozen people were injured from the blaze, mostly related to smoke inhalation.

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