Mother breaks window to help 10-month old baby escape apartment fire

A family is breathing a sigh of relief after a terrifying fire at an apartment in Etobicoke forced a mother to break a second-floor window to save her 10-month-old daughter.

Tamara Harris said she was stuck inside a building unit with her young daughter as smoke started filling the hallways of the apartment on Eighth Street near Lake Shore Boulevard West on Wednesday morning. 

Panicking, she said she broke a window in order to pass her baby to someone outside of the burning building.

She said a neighbour down below reached up and grabbed the baby.

Harris said she suffered extensive cuts on her hand and wrists when she smashed the second storey window.