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A pair of bystanders broke a toddler's fall after he fell from the third-floor fire escape of an apartment building, officials said[hhmc]
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The two-year-old fell from the fourth-floor escape to the third-floor escape before falling toward the ground[hhmc]
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Two women standing below the fire escape were able to break the boy's fall, and he was taken to the hospital with no serious injuries[hhmc]
A pair of bystanders broke a toddlers fall after he fell from the third-floor fire escape of an apartment building, officials said.
The two-year-old boy got out onto the fourth-floor fire escape at an apartment building on 49th Street, near 47th Avenue, in Sunnyside, Queens, around 6 p.m. on Saturday, police and the FDNY said.
The toddler fell from the fourth-floor fire escape to the third-floor escape, where he was dangling, before falling from the third-floor escape, police said.
Two women standing below the fire escape were able to break the toddlers fall, the NYPD said. The toddler was taken to the hospital without any serious injuries, according to police.
One of the women was taken to the hospital with bruises on her arm, witnesses said.
Police said the boys mother was inside the apartment when the fall happened. No one had been arrested as of Saturday evening.
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