A family in Longview, Washington is lucky to be alive after a mother tossed her baby from her apartment building as flames engulfed it. 

On Sunday, Mark Hedgpeth was relaxing inside his house when he noticed a bright light on his security camera monitor and screams coming from nearby.

Hedgpeth rushed across the road and saw his neighbor’s house engulfed in flames. A family of five was living downstairs and a family of four was trapped downstairs. 

As the flames roared, Chiann James, a mother of two, went to her second story window and dropped her baby to Hedgpeth, who was standing below.

Hedgpeth caught the baby. 

"Nothing was going to make me miss," said Hedgpeth.

James dropped her other child out of the window as well and another person caught it.

James and her husband then jumped out of the window.

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