VIDEO: Two adults and a child are safe Tuesday after a neighbor used quick thinking during a fire in Kalamazoo.
It happened around 2:55 p.m. near Park Place Street and Forest Street.
When authorities arrived, they said they saw smoke and flames coming from the back of the multiunit home. They were able to get the fire under control within 10 minutes, public safety officials said.
Before firefighters got there, two adults and a child were able to get to the roof and call for help. A neighbor looked out his window and ran over to help.
Jonathan Frazier, the neighbor who helped, described the fire as big and said he heard loud cracking sounds.
“I look out and it’s cracking — wood and everything cracking in the back,” Frazier said. “I ran downstairs and had her toss the baby to me and then she jumped down. The boyfriend jumped down the other side. I caught the baby’s mother as much as I could.”