- It happened in a flash. A father desperate to save his child from the smoke and flames quickly filling his apartment, tossed his baby from the second floor of a burning apartment building.Fortunately, DeKalb County firefighter Robert Sutton, who was among the first firefighters to arrive at the Parks on Glenwood, caught the baby in one swift move. 
 
 "He was a little guy, so when I heard his father yelling 'Help', and saw him hanging out the window with the baby in his arms, I just went into action. I just did what any of the other firefighters out here would have done," Sutton told Fox 5's Portia Bruner Wednesday. "I just said 'Drop him.' He did and I am blessed to have been in a position to catch the baby," said Sutton, who grew up not far from the Glenwood Road apartment complex. "It was my first time in a situation like that," said Sutton. 
 
 It was a remarkable sight to see something like that. They wre on it," said master plumber Larry Carter, who recorded the rescue on his cell phone. 
 
 Carter and other contractors were doing renovations on the building next door when the fire erupted. He stopped to record the fire as the smoke started billowing from the windows. All of a sudden you heard a man screaming. When I heard there was a baby, my heart started fluttering. But the firefighters up to the window fast and the one guy just caught it like a football pass. It was something to see," said Carter. 
 
 Captain Tom Burrell was visibly moved as he watch the video of the rescue with Bruner. 
 
 "I just hope that this helps people understood the hard work and training that goes into being a firefighter," Captain Burrell said as he stood in front of the burned building Wednesday. "There's not really one thing that prepares you for what Firefighter Sutton and his colleagues encountered yesterday. It's good training. It's years of experience and having a good sense of situational awareness. I'm just really proud," he added. 
 
 Sutton, who has two young children of his own, is reluctant to take credit for the life saving catch. He says it just comes down to good training, great fellow firefighters and shared commitment to helping people in distress. 
 
 "I grew up in this community and it's just an honor to be able to help people here and work with the great guys I work with. We do this together and I'm just happy and blessed to be able to help that father and his baby. It's our job," said Sutton, who's been a Dekalb County Firefighter for ten years. "I'm just glad they were both ok," he said. ||||| Air Force Staff Sgt. Georgina Walton, who was home from deployment, surprised her son Brody at the Charleston RiverDogs game April 20. 
 
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 DeKalb County firefighter Robert Sutton has been hailed a hero for catching the child, who was tossed from the second story. Video footage shows the rescue. 
 
 "It's a term that firefighters and officers alike don't hold onto or acknowledge, but it was heroic," said Captain Eric Jackson, the department's public information officer. "For a firefighter to be where he was and be keenly aware ... when the gentleman dropped the baby, he dropped him right into his arms." 
 
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 The fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon at the two-story Glenwood Road apartment complex in Decatur, Georgia. The father of the baby had attempted to evacuate, but was cut off by fire. He then tossed the child from the second floor to Sutton on the ground level, to get his baby out of the smoke-filled area as quickly as possible. Soon after, the father was removed by the crew by way of ladder. The family escaped without any injuries, Captain Tom Burrell told ABC News. 
 
 Sutton, a 10-year veteran with the department, has been "very humble" since the incident, Burrell said about his colleague. 
 
 "He deflected a lot of the credit to being in the right place at the right time and the good work to his crew," he said. "He just happened to be the one standing there when the gentlemen found himself at the window. As a father of two children himself, I think anybody can understand that if that opportunity occurred, he could see himself in that man's shoes." 
 
 The video was captured by a contracted plumber who was doing work in the building next door, Captain Jackson said. ||||| DALLAS — It was waking up to the worst nightmare: A building at Meadows on Ferguson in Northeast Dallas was in flames Wednesday morning. 
 
 A mother and father saw their apartment was filled with smoke. The halls of the building were already engulfed in flames, so the dad punched the bedroom window to escape. Under them, a young man was ready to help. 
 
 The parents were left with no choice but to drop their 1-year-old baby, Kirsten, out the bedroom window. 
 
 A stranger, Byron Campbell, was standing there with his arms out, convincing the mother to let go. 
 
 “She trusted me and she dropped the baby and I caught the baby,” he said. 
 
 "I just told the mom I wouldn't drop the baby. Then she let go and I caught it. I held on like a football and didn't let go," Campbell said. 
 
 “It was terrifying,” said Shuntara Thomas in tears, “I didn’t know if I was going to come down with her or if that would be the last time that I was holding my child.” 
 
 Five other people, including Shuntara, also had to jump out third-floor windows. Neighbors and Dallas police officers worked together to find mattresses that could cushion the fall. They stood beneath and supported each person as they jumped. 
 
 Baby Kirsten is doing well. Her dad, Patrick, got 22 stitches. Shuntara has scrapes and bumps. Their wounds remind them of the heroes who saved their lives. 
 
 “I have my child because of him," Shuntara said. "She gets to live another day because of him.” 
 
 A total of three people were injured, including a firefighter who suffered burns. They were all expected to be okay. 
 
 More than 40 people were displaced by the fire, which started shortly after 7 a.m. 
 
 Sargent Mike Mata with Dallas Police says he has no doubts people would have died if it weren't for the quick actions of the young men. 
 
 This is the young man who caught a baby as it dropped three stories up from a burning apartment, Byron Campbell made the catch of his life! This man is a hero!!! pic.twitter.com/G8nwyeq6zM — Hannah VanHuss Davis (@hannahdinhd) November 21, 2018 
 
 "They worked alongside our officers and they're heroes...they stepped up and they saved lives," Mata said. 
 
 Other neighbors helped as well. Jerrell Worthy had just moved to the apartments and offered up her brand new mattress for the young men to use. 
 
 "I don't care if it's brand new I want to save someone's life," Worthy said. 
 
 Wednesday evening, Dallas Police released body camera footage from officers who arrived on the scene before firefighters did. 
 
 That footage shows officers kicking down and banging on apartment doors--telling people to get out. 
 
 It also shows officers sticking around, treating the wounds of some residents who were injured and offering support. 
 
 Fire officials say they're still investigating what caused the fire to start. Red Cross arrived shortly after and is assisting displaced residents. 
 
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– "It was something to see," Larry Carter tells Fox 5. The plumber got video of a Georgia firefighter catching a baby that had been thrown from a burning apartment building Tuesday in Decatur. Good Morning America reports the baby's father was unable to get out of the building, so he tossed the baby from the second floor and into the arms of firefighter Robert Sutton. Carter says Sutton "caught it like a football pass." While others are calling Sutton a hero, colleagues say he's being "very humble" about his lifesaving catch. "I just did what any of the other firefighters out here would have done." The baby's father was eventually pulled from the building by firefighters, and no injuries were reported.