Dramatic Video: Hero Firefighter Catches Baby Dropped from Burning Building

A Georgia firefighter made an incredible rescue after she caught a baby dropped from the third floor of a burning apartment building, according to a video of the incident. Captain Jackie Peckrul, one of the DeKalb County firefighters who responded to the January 3 blaze at Avondale Forest Apartments in Decatur, told WAGA that the situation looked pretty dire when she arrived with her fellow firefighters. “You immediately saw flames and you could hear their screams,” she recalled. Instead of being deterre