Overview
- Police and firefighters responded to a house fire at a two-story, three-unit home on Washington Avenue where a mother and her infant were trapped on a second-floor porch.
- Body-worn camera video shows Officer Michael Arnett instructing the mother to lower the baby through a window and catching the infant as the child was dropped to safety.
- Crews used ladders to reach the porch after finding the home's interior staircase damaged, and firefighters reported most fire activity on the right side of the building with some spread into the attic.
- The mother and baby were taken to a local hospital as a precaution and were reported uninjured, and other residents evacuated the building without harm.
- Authorities have opened an investigation into the cause of the blaze while the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety released the bodycam footage to media outlets.