A mother who’s apartment caught fire dropped her two-day-old baby boy and two-year-old toddler out her two-storey window to save them when she was unable to get out the front door.
The 27-year-old women was cooking in the kitchen of her Lakemba unit at 9.30pm on Thursday when the fire started.
When she couldn’t get out the front door, she took her two children to the window, to which a passer-by came to her aid.
Senior Constable Jamie Wallace said that she dropped the kids out the window and the man caught them, but the man told Nine News they actually landed on mattresses he’d dragged from his nearby home.
The children were not injured and the woman was rescued shortly after when the firefighters arrived at the scene.
She was treated for smoke inhalation and cuts to her feet in hospital.
The fire spread to other apartments and 50 other people were evacuated in the 12-unit building.
The fire is not being treated as suspicious.
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