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NEW YORK - A bus driver has become a surprise hero after saving a seven-year-old girl who accidentally fell three stories from a Brooklyn apartment building.

“I just said 'Please, let me catch her, lord, please let me catch her',” Stephen St. Bernard told local NY1 television about Monday’s rescue in the Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighbourhood.

A video of the incident taken on a mobile phone and broadcast by the channel showed the girl standing on an air conditioning unit outside her apartment window more than 30 feet (10 meters) from the ground.

Amid cries from people watching the scene unfold from the ground, the girl fell into the arms of St. Bernard.

“I ran over there hoping that she wouldn’t fall. When I got there, she was still standing there and I just positioned myself,” he said.

“When she lost her balance, I caught her. She has no scratches or anything. She’s okay.” 

St. Bernard, who said he cried after saving the girl, suffered a torn tendon in his arm from the impact.

The girl has been identified as Keyla McCree. Her mother had left her alone in the room moments before, according to the New York Post.

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Wed May 22 20:43:57 SAST 2013 ::

Jul 18, 2012

Idohl

My superhero!! A great deed indeed on Madiba's Day!!
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Jul 18, 2012

Chieftancy

Give that man a BELL !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jul 18, 2012

Papage

Mothers please don't just leave your babies alone, what is wrong with you? Some mothers are not suppose to have kids, they must go sterilize.

My Man, you are my hero on this important day of Madiba.
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Jul 18, 2012

BaleliM

so you leave a 3yr old alone in the house, in a flat nogal?
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Jul 18, 2012

luh87

yes indeed ..give da man a bells !
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Jul 18, 2012

Kgaoza606

WOW, what a great deed right there,o bosso ma mann... Truly inspiring story!!!
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Jul 18, 2012

Memme

@BaleliM
The girl is 7 years old hle bathong..
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Jul 18, 2012

Tk-2006

Bana le bona ba stout hle! Her mother deserves an appropriate reprimand from the child welfare, such incidents are bloodcurdling. You're the man Mr Bernard, you're the man..
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Jul 18, 2012

MommaC

What kind of 7 year old is this stoopid?
Well done to the driver. She is lucky he could catch
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Jul 18, 2012

beautiful4

good deeds indeed, not rapist we live with in our country
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