Baby thrown from third floor survives

LONDON: It would seem like a TV drama plot but  exceptions can't be ruled out -- a desperate father spectacularly saved the life of his baby after he dropped the infant from  the third floor of a burning building into the hands of a fireman.
   
Nine people including five children and a pregnant women  were killed when a blaze scorched a block of flats in the southern German city of Ludwigshafen. It was not known last  night whether the baby's parents were among the dead, the
Independent reported.
  
As flames engulfed the house, a group of adults could be  seen at the window with a baby. On street level, rescue workers  and firemen had gathered, their arms outstretched. Last night, the baby was said to be in a stable condition.
  
The incident occurred after the century-old block was used  by revellers looking on at a carnival popular in Catholic  areas of Germany which passed by in the street below. The heat  of the fire was said to be so intense that a stairwell within the building collapsed.