DUBUQUE (AP) — Authorities say a police officer and a boy’s mother coaxed the 7-year-old into jumping from a second-story window into their arms so he could escape a fire at their home in Dubuque.
The fire was reported about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. Fire officials say the mother was able to escape down the front stairs when the blaze erupted. Smoke prevented the boy from reaching the front or rear stairs.
Officer Dane Clark and two others soon joined the mother below the window where the boy was standing. They persuaded him to push out the screen, drop his dog to one of the officers and jump into the waiting arms of his mother and Clark.
Fire Chief Rich Steines says the boy was taken to a Dubuque for treatment of smoke inhalation.