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Felix Vazquez is a New York City Housing Authority supervisor, but he recently made a catch infinitely more precious than any made by Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress or Jets wide receiver Laveranues Coles. That's because Vazquez's catch was literally a lifesaver.
On the morning of December 15, Tracinda Foxe took her two older children, Raymond, 11, and Alexis, 9, to school. Returning home to her third-floor Bronx apartment, she took a brief nap with her one-month-old son, Eric, in her arms. She was soon awakened by the smell of smoke. As she related her story to the New York Daily News: "I thought about running for the front door but I couldn't make it. I closed the [bedroom] door but then me and my baby were trapped." Foxe's main worry was that her baby might be overcome by the smoke. Her window had protective guards over it, but she managed to squeeze Eric through the guards and hold him in the fresh air.
Vazquez and his employees could see the baby's perilous plight from where they were on the ground. Vazquez directed several of them to go to the apartment and positioned himself beneath the window.
Seeing Vazquez below, positioned like a football receiver, Foxe screamed, "Save my son, save my son," and dropped her baby to him. Eric tell 30 feet, right into Vazquez's outstretched arms, but he was still concerned about the tiny boy. "He wasn't crying, so I gave him mouth-to-mouth," Vazquez ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Amazing catch saves baby.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(New York City...