N.M. Cop Helps Save Baby for Burning Building

An Albuquerque (N.M.) Police officer on his way home from completing a graveyard shift helped rescue a baby from a burning apartment building early Thursday.

Officer Robert Mitchell, a fire division chief, and a journeyman electrician showed up at at 6:30 a.m. at an eight-unit apartment complex in the 100 block of Glorieta NE as the building began to catch fire.

By the time the firetrucks arrived, the three men had removed eight to 10 people from the building, including a mother and her baby, reports the Albuquerque Journal .