DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – An East Dallas family is safe today thanks to the quick thinking of residents during a large fire that broke out at the Meadows at Ferguson apartments Wednesday morning.
Melvina Love lives in the complex and said she ran next door to the building as flames were shooting through the roof.
That’s when Love said she saw a couple and their baby daughter looking helpless from their burning third floor window.
“I was like ‘throw the baby out the window, throw the baby out the window, I am going to catch the baby’ so I moved up to the bushes and she finally released the baby and I caught the baby,” she said.
The baby is safe but the couple was injured from the jump to the ground floor and smoke inhalation.
A firefighter was also injured during the blaze.
Dallas Fire Rescue’s Jason Evans said this community worked together to help their residents get to safety.
“They were able to get some of the other residents to drag out mattresses and there were at least six people who actually had to jump to safety,” he said.
Love said she’s glad to see she lives in a community that comes together to help out in times of danger and need.
“You see people and you speak to them and you may not speak to them but you know faces. We’re in a village and it takes a village to raise kids,” said Love.
Evans said the entire unit is likely uninhabitable.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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