Mom tosses daughter out second-floor window to escape fire

A southeast Atlanta mother tossed her 4-year-old daughter out a second-floor window early Wednesday before jumping to escape the family’s burning apartment.

The fire broke out at an apartment complex on New Town Circle before daybreak.

Kamisha Boozer told Channel 2 Action News that a neighbor woke her up after noticing flames shooting from the roof of her apartment.

“When I opened the bedroom door, there were flames all in the hallway, so I just closed the door back and went to the window,” Boozer told the station. “There were people downstairs, and I threw Leah down and they caught her, and then I jumped.”

Neither Boozer nor her daughter were injured. The girl’s father hurt his hand breaking out a window.

“I said, ‘Oh my God, somebody’s apartment is on fire.’ Then I started banging on people’s doors,” said Karen Wright, the neighbor who alerted Boozer. “That’s what neighbors are for.”

The fire was apparently sparked by an electrical problem in a second-floor bathroom, Channel 2 reported.

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