Man saves mother and babies from fire, catches child tossed from window

Man saves mother and babies from fire, catches child tossed from... (Added: February 10, 2012)

A mother and her two children were burned in that fire, but witnesses say it may have been much worse if another neighbor didn't jump in to help out. (more)

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Reginald Curry

Antoinette Laws

By: Larry Collins | CountOn2.com
Published: February 10, 2012
Updated: February 10, 2012 - 10:42 PM

Neighbors are are still trying to process all they saw Friday morning when I fire ripped through the Noisette Apartments in North Charleston.

A mother and her two children were burned in that fire, but witnesses say it may have been much worse if another neighbor didn't jump in to help out.

"I was in tears, I was in tears. My heart just went out to her and the children," neighbor Antoinette Laws said.

The mother and children were in an upstairs apartment and needed help to get out.

"She said don't worry about her; 'catch my baby.'" Laws recalled.

Waiting below was 44-year-old Reginald Curry.

"There were flames coming out and black smoke coming out. She had the baby in her hands. I ran over there and I told her to drop the baby. She dropped the baby in my hands. I caught the baby and passed it on to one of my neighbors," Curry said.

According to Curry, he then asked the mother if there were any other children in the that upstairs apartment. The woman said that there was one more child inside.

"I ran up the stairs and kicked in the door - went inside the house and grabbed the baby and brought the baby out," Curry said.

The mother jumped to safety when her young children were safe. Curry and neighbors estimate that the children were between the ages of 1 and 3.

Both children were burned badly.

"There were pink spots all over their skin and the one that was in the living room was laying down on the living room floor. The one that was laying in the living room looked like he was sleeping or unconscious," Curry said.

The mother also suffering burns.

"She was burned too. She had skin patches missing in her face just like the kids; hair burned," Curry said.

Now neighbors gather in prayer and concern for the heroic mother who thought of her children before herself.

"She was being a mother. Now that's a mother's love," Laws said.

And they look to the man, Reginald Curry, who came to their aide.

"I'm not a hero. I just did something for somebody that I would hope that they would do for me. We are all neighbors. We care about out neighbors," Curry said.