Watch a firefighter catch a child thrown from a burning building in Georgia

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Watch a firefighter catch a child thrown from a burning building in Georgia

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Georgia firefighter catching child from burning building

Screenshot/DeKalb County Firefighter's Association

A helmet camera captured a firefighter catching a five-year-old child who was thrown from a burning building in Georgia in early January.

The video shows Capt. Scott Stroup catch the child, who was thrown by the father from a ladder three stories up, as people screamed and embers rained down to the ground.

A number of other children were dropped from the building and caught by firefighters as well. 

A four-year-old child was dropped from a balcony and caught by Capt. Jackie Peckrul, according to Inside Edition. Babies as young as one-month-old were also dropped and caught, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 

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"We were catching babies like a football - literally," DeKalb County fire Capt. Eric Jackson told the Journal-Constitution. "There were adults that were on the balcony that were dropping their babies right into our arms. We had a couple firefighters catching babies, so it was just really incredible."

The fire on January 3 in Decatur, Georgia injured 12 people, including 8 children, according to WSB-TV. 

Watch the video from the Washington Post below: