--- title: Hero Fireman Dives and Catches Baby Thrown From a Burning Building description: The mother threw the 10-month-old down before jumping herself to escape the flames canonical: https://time.com/3999450/hero-fireman-tennessee/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-15T15:01:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:28.372Z og:title: Hero Fireman Dives and Catches Baby Thrown From a Burning Building og:description: The mother threw the 10-month-old down before jumping herself to escape the flames og:url: https://time.com/3999450/hero-fireman-tennessee/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf284cd55f08089f2/69885f788e0601d51c461e58/2015-08-14t235851z_1418002975_tm3eb8e1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1610 og:image:height: 906 og:image:alt: Undated photo of Chattanooga Fire Lieutenant Vernon Lane og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hero Fireman Dives and Catches Baby Thrown From a Burning Building twitter:description: The mother threw the 10-month-old down before jumping herself to escape the flames twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf284cd55f08089f2/69885f788e0601d51c461e58/2015-08-14t235851z_1418002975_tm3eb8e1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hero Fireman Dives and Catches Baby Thrown From a Burning Building > Sponsored content. 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The mother threw the 10-month-old baby before jumping herself to escape the fire after it ignited late Thursday, according to Lane, a Chattanooga fire lieutenant. Lane caught the baby before the mother landed on his back. Both survived without injury. “I had to dive and actually catch the baby in my arms cause we both hit the ground at the same time,” Lane said at a news conference Friday, according Reuters. Both Lane and the woman lived in the building that caught on fire. It took 50 firefighters to extinguish the flames, and Lane lost most of his possessions. But he is being heralded as a hero in Chattanooga. “I was just doing my job,” said Lane. “It’s my instinct to help.” \[[_Reuters_](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/15/us-usa-tennessee-rescue-idUSKCN0QJ2CT20150815?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3999450/hero-fireman-tennessee/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3999450/hero-fireman-tennessee/"},"headline":"Hero Fireman Dives and Catches Baby Thrown From a Burning Building","datePublished":"2015-08-15T15:01:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:28.372Z","description":"The mother threw the 10-month-old down before jumping herself to escape the flames","url":"https://time.com/3999450/hero-fireman-tennessee/","keywords":["Newsfeed","U.S."],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf284cd55f08089f2/69885f788e0601d51c461e58/2015-08-14t235851z_1418002975_tm3eb8e1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf284cd55f08089f2/69885f788e0601d51c461e58/2015-08-14t235851z_1418002975_tm3eb8e1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Undated photo of Chattanooga Fire Lieutenant Vernon Lane","caption":"Undated photo of Chattanooga Fire Lieutenant Vernon Lane","creditText":"City of Chattanooga/Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3999450/hero-fireman-tennessee/","name":"Hero Fireman Dives and Catches Baby Thrown From a Burning Building"}}]}] ```