Woman, Baby, Grandmother Rescued From Roof Of Burning Home In Lake Geneva
CHICAGO (CBS) -- A woman called 911 from the roof of her burning home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, earlier this week, clutching her baby in her arms as she pleaded for help.
"Baby, stay with me. Baby, stay with me," she said to her child after an emergency dispatcher picked up the call. "My house is on fire. Me, my mom, and my baby are stuck on the roof."
They could barely breathe as Lake Geneva Police Officer William Walser arrived.
"I told her, I said, 'Mom, you've got to put your hands out like this and drop your daughter down to me. That's my only option right now,' and she didn't like that at first. I said 'You've got to do it now.' You know, they were having a hard time breathing up there, and she finally did it, and she did a nice drop, and we caught her," Walser told CBS 58 in Milwaukee.
After the woman dropped her child to Walser, she fell off the roof, and was caught by another officer. The grandmother wouldn't jump, so a neighbor brought over a ladder, and the roof collapsed. The assistant police chief broke the grandmother's fall, and suffered minor injuries in the process.
