Sky News:– Video footage shows the moment a toddler was caught by a former American football player after being thrown out of a burning building by his mother in Phoenix, Arizona.
The three-year-old boy was “twirling in the air like a propeller”, Phillip Blanks told ABC7 – adding that it was just “instinct” that led to him rushing out, barefoot, to help.
The 28-year-old ex-player said: “There wasn’t much thinking. I just reacted. I just did it.
“I just did my best. His head landed perfectly on my elbow. His ankle got twisted up as I was diving. The guy who was there with me – it looked like he wasn’t going to catch him. So that’s why I stepped in.
“I just wanted to make a better catch.”
The child’s mother, Rachel Long, 30, did not survive the fire; her other child, an eight-year-old girl, was taken to hospital, along with her younger brother, according to local reports.
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