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Former CA football player catches child thrown from a burning building

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PHONEIX — A former football player at Saddleback College in Southern California made the catch of his life over the weekend.

Video shows Philip Banks catching a three-year-old baby thrown from a burning building in Phoneix, Arizona. Blanks said he was at home when he heard a commotion and rushed outside. That's when he saw the burning building.

The baby survived the fall but the mother died in the fire.

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