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Life saver.(The Goodness Of America)
Alan Burns of Inverness, Florida, operates the Just Stumps lawn service and stump grinding firm in Citrus County. In March, he took a weekend off to relax at the Dorsan Suites resort in Kissimmee with some friends from his Moose Lodge.
At around noon on March 20, Burns, 43, was reading a book by the pool when he heard a woman screaming something about a baby. He glanced around until he saw the woman looking up at a toddler hanging from an outdoor walkway railing on the hotel's third floor.
He ran to help, but there was little he or the unidentified woman could do other than try to coax the two-year-old girl to safety and prepare to somehow lessen the severity of the impact should she fall.
The little girl did fall, but Burns acted quickly. Nudging the woman aside, he positioned himself directly underneath and (as he put it) "pretty much caught her." The momentum propelled him and the child into a bush, but the paramedics who arrived ...
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