the screams filled the street as flames tore through the burning Bronx building: "Help me! Help me! Please! Please!'' Neighbor Edward Soto raced toward the fire through the frigid night air, then stared in disbelief as an infant fell from the building and through the smoke.
"All I see is just a big cloud of white dust, and out of nowhere comes the first baby,'' said Soto, who caught the child while with another neighbor, David Todd. Moments later, Soto caught a second child hurled through a shattered window by a screaming mother trapped inside the three-story inferno. Both children survived.
The dramatic scene unfolded during New York's City's deadliest blaze in 17 years - a fire that claimed nine victims early Thursday, eight children and one adult. The victims were all relatives who shared the home near Yankee Stadium after immigrating from western Africa. The heartbreaking word of the fire spread across two continents, from the South Bronx to villages in Mali.
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