Police said first responders saw a man sticking his head out the window of a second-floor apartment with smoke pouring out. The man was able to drop the boy to officers and firefighters below before jumping out himself.
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, New Jersey -- A father dropped his 3-year-old son out a second-story window to first responders below as a fire raged through an apartment complex in New Jersey Monday morning.First responders saw a man sticking his head out the window of a second-floor apartment with smoke pouring out after they initially thought all 25 apartments in the building were empty.
"The fact that he was sleeping, and we pounded on those doors," Fire Chief Chris Perez said."I mean, we were making a lot of noise." The man disappeared as the officers shouted from the ground for him to hurry, and he then reappeared with the toddler."When he went back in, I didn't know what he was going back in for, and that kind of concerns us when something like that happens," Perez said."So luckily, he came back fairly quickly with the child."
The man lowered his son out the window, feet first, and dropped him to the group, consisting of officers, the fire chief and a construction worker who was nearby. "It's a lot because you're trying to put yourself in his shoes to think, hey, you're dropping your kid down," Sgt. William Merkler said."I can't even imagine what was going through his mind."