Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
By Brianne Makin
31 January, 2017
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
By Brianne Makin
31 January, 2017
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
By Brianne Makin
31 January, 2017
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
By Brianne Makin
31 January, 2017
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
By Brianne Makin
31 January, 2017
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
By Brianne Makin
31 January, 2017
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
By Brianne Makin
31 January, 2017
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
By Brianne Makin
31 January, 2017
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
Baby Neveah Hayes Saved From Fire
By Brianne Makin
31 January, 2017
Frantic parents were forced to throw their baby from the second storey of a burning building yesterday with a pair of heroic neighbours snatching the child to safety below.
The drama unfolded at a block of apartments at Blacktown in western Sydney just before 8am yesterday as a fire broke out in the unit below the second-floor flat where Luke Hayes and Kristy Morton and their 7½-month-old daughter Nevaeh live.
“I was in bed asleep and I heard ‘fire’ from down below and there was smoke everywhere in the unit. I thought I was going to die,” Mr Hayes said. As Ms Morton retrieved their baby, Mr Hayes tried the door only to discover that it was hot to the touch – which meant they were trapped.
Meanwhile in the block next door, neighbour Tony Finn had seen the flames and raced over. “My first thought was to get everyone out but the heat was so intense,” he said. So he ran back and met another neighbour, Charlie, before the pair grabbed a ladder and a blanket and stood below the balconies next door.
“I heard Charlie and Tony shouting below,” Ms Morton said. So she made the split-second decision to carefully drop her precious baby over the balcony to safety before she and Mr Hayes climbed down the ladder. Mr Finn said: “We caught her like a football, with our arms out – she was smiling like an angel. She loved it. She was smiling when she landed but I’m . . . still a bit shaky.” 


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