ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 It was a dramatic scene in Allentown early Friday morning when a fast-moving fire forced a family to have to make a split-second decision to save their baby.<\/p>\n
Neighbors told 69 News they awoke to alarms and thick smoke. When they stepped outside, an 11-month-old baby was thrown out of a second-story window into the arms of an adult on the ground.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video shared with 69 News shows the moment help arrived as police officers starting banging on doors to get people out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fire officials responded to the 900 block of North Emery Street around 3:30 a.m. They say the fire started in the basement of one home and that three people were rescued. Five of the home’s six occupants were taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
Next door neighbor Evelyn Carmona immediately knew something was off.<\/p>\n
“Three o\u2019clock in the morning, I heard the alarms. I see smoke in my apartment. I grabbed my two dogs and my bird and my bibles, and I put them down in the living room and then I came outside,” Carmona recalled.<\/p>\n
Carmona said her next-door neighbor’s home was on fire, and she witnessed them throwing their baby out a second-story window to safety.<\/p>\n
“They catch him, they catch him in their arms. I called 911 right away,” Carmona said.<\/p>\n
Allentown firefighters rescued three people from the property. Two were hanging out of second floor windows. One person was rescued in the back of the home.<\/p>\n
Carmona’s daughter, Sasha Caro, knows the family next door.<\/p>\n
“No one wants to have to wake up at night and live that moment, especially with an 11-month-old baby. Me as a mom, that would be my first reaction \u2014 get my kids out. Material things you can replace, but not a life. Right now, they have nothing. They lost everything,” Caro stated.<\/p>\n
Luis Reyes was at his girlfriend’s house two doors down. Reyes told us the block is tight-knit and looks out for each other. As of Friday night, Reyes said, four of the five family members are out of the hospital.<\/p>\n
“Thank God everybody is alive,” Reyes stated.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 It was a dramatic scene in Allentown early Friday morning when a fast-moving fire forced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-144567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}