Mom Hospitalized After Stopping Runaway Stroller
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- Firefighters rescued a mother and a baby Wednesday afternoon after the woman leaped down an embankment to keep the baby's stroller from rolling into the Sacramento River.
A family was tossing rocks into the river near the train tracks around Front Street and R Street when the 5-month-old baby's stroller slipped away from the parents and rolled down the sloped embankment toward the river.
The mother spotted the danger first and ran after the baby, breaking her ankle but keeping the stroller out of the river.
Firefighters rigged up a pulley system to safely bring the woman up to level ground and transported her to the hospital for treatment.
"My fiancé went after [the baby] and I went right after them," said father Chris Hopkins. "My fiancé broke the ankle, but it seems like our baby's okay."
