6-YEAR-OLD BOY SURVIVED AFTER HE WAS DROPPED FROM THE WINDOW ON THE 3RD FLOOR

A 6-year-old boy was dropped by his Grandmother from the third floor of their apartment. Luckily, the boy survived.

Judith Lambs was living on the third floor of the burning apartment in Roxbury with her grandson, Xavier Lamb. The explosion and smoke woke them up. They could not got out from their room. With that, she decided to either wait for a littler longer for a rescuer to rescue them. But minutes had past and she can no longer hang on. She decided to broke a window and throw her grandson hoping he will survive leaving herself inside the room. Luckily, a firefighter was ontime catches the boy on his arm.

Lieutenant Glenn McGillivray who catches the 6-year-old boy is one of the firefighters in Boston. He was thankful that the boy landed on his arm that gave him a very good feeling. Lieutenant McGillivray was addressed to be a hero but he denied it for he was just doing the best he can do as part of his job as a firefighter.

The fire was started at about 1:00 a.m. of early Monday when the residents of the U-shaped apartment building on Wardman Road in the Roxbury heard an explosion that set the fire upto 6-alarm. 160 firefighters responded the fire they were able to rescue all the residents. there are currently 75 families were hoemless. The building damage was about $3 million.

Short time later the fire, a man showed up in the hopital having a second degree burn on his body. His name is Mohamed Abdul Jabar, 28, of Medford who admitted that he started the fire. Base on the preliminary investigation, Jabar set the fire as part of his failed suicide attempt. Jabar suffered burn on 10% of his body. He was charged  with arison of dwelling and mutiple counts of attempted murder.

via msnbc.com