Jul 04 2009
Man who rescued baby from fire to leave hospital
My Last post was about impostors window cleaner robbing clients. Sadly, that happens with real and fake window cleaners. And since cleaning is consider beneath most people and consider among many as uneducated type of work. Well, some uninformed people look down on any one that cleans toilets or windows for a living. They forget that we are much more then the type of work we do. Here is a great example of a humble hero, Mr. Jesus Cabrera
Man who rescued baby from fire to leave hospital
Jesus Cabrera was severely burned while rescuing a baby from a house fire. He is visited by his wife, Blanca Cruz, center, and friend, Karla Lopez. (Photo by Daniel Goodrich / June 21, 2009)
More than two months after he helped a young mother rescue her infant out of a burning house despite his own severe injuries, Jesus Cabrera will be released soon from Stony Brook University Medical Center.
At a bedside interview at the hospital on Friday, Cabrera, 43, recalled that on April 9, he woke up to smoke and flames in the room he rented at a Brentwood home. Cabrera, who works for an office cleaning company at night, said he was forced to run through the flames to get to the back door. Once outside, he heard his housemate, Wendy Maldonado, 18, call out for help. He saw her with her 3-month-old child in her arms, and smoke spewing out of the window.
Despite his burned lungs and already blistering arms, Cabrera said he reached up, grabbed the baby by an arm and pulled her out of an approximately 6-foot-high first-story window at the Suffolk Avenue house.
“After I got the baby, the mother came out through the window, and I handed the baby to the mother,” Cabrera said through a hospital interpreter. “After that, I don’t remember any more.”
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