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Phillip Blanks, a former college football player and ex-Marine, made the greatest catch of his life when he saved a child thrown from a burning building over the weekend.

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A shocking video showed the moment Blanks caught a three-year-old boy thrown from the balcony of a burning apartment complex in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 3, right before he hit the ground, KABC reported.

"Instinct. There wasn't much thinking. I just reacted. I just did it," he told the station.

The 28-year-old said he was always raised with the mindset to serve others.

Blanks served in the U.S.
Marines and currently has a job in the security industry.

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Philip Blanks

He also credits his time playing football as a wide receiver for Saddleback College in Mission Viejo as key to his personal growth.

"I know how to catch," he says. "I've learned how to catch a football. So I'll give some credit to football."

On the day of the fire he heard a lot of commotion outside of his building.

Then Blanks heard someone yell there was a fire, so he grabbed a few things and ran outside barefoot to check it out.

"He was twirling in the air like a propeller," Blanks said. "I just did my best. His head landed perfectly on my elbow. His ankle got twisted up as I was diving.
The guy who was there with me – it looked like he wasn't going to catch him.
So that's why I stepped in.
I just wanted to make a better catch."

While the child's life was saved, his 30-year-old mother died in the fire. Her final act was to fling her son to safety while she was already engulfed in flames.

"She's the real hero of the story." Blanks said.

"Because she made the ultimate sacrifice to save her children."

The boy's father was at work when the blaze broke out. Investigators are still investigating the cause of the fire.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSoshSchUJI

https://www.breitbart.com/local/2020/07/08/video-ex-wide-receiver-catches-child-thrown-burning-building/

Rip to the mother Thanks to blanks
We go survive this year

Kudos man... Nice job..

If he resists the urge to shalaye about his catching skills, maybe some good things will come his way

The african in france who climbed up 3 stories to save a dangling baby didn't say he was a palmwine tapper or a monkey

acknowledge the deed and receive the thanks with humility

Kudos to the man. Chelsea come sign this man to replace arizabalaga.

Rest in peace to the mother .

Same thing every mother in that condition would do without doubt.

GMBuhari:
If he resists the urge to shalaye about his catching skills, maybe some good things will come his way

The african in france who climbed up 3 stories to save a dangling baby didn't say he was a palmwine tapper or a monkey

acknowledge the deed and receive the thanks with humility

One needs to learn to resist the urge to reject compliments and attribute it to something.

A good man is a blessing to the society.

God keep the child and console the father and everyone who would be affected by the death of the mother.

Oh her final moment was hell.

Engulfed in flames, frightened and in pain, the only coherent thought was to save her kids and not herself. This is love & only parents can give.

I'm heartbroken. Rest in peace brave woman.

So emotional.The mother too could have jumped.She might have lived though with some broken bones.

wow

I saw the news on NBC and I was wowed. The guy did a good catch there.
Nothing can ever be compared to the love and sacrifices of mothers.

Everyone in that incident is a hero.

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Righteousness89:
All I have to Say!
Thank you JESUS for Saving that Child!

Stop giving another man's credit to christ it was the man who saved the child not christ so give credits according

tank God 4 life

Oh my my my... A mother's instinct is the most powerful in creation. She was already burning, engulfed in flames and despite the unimaginably horrible pain she was going through, it was her child she was thinking of.

oh my!

This kind of bravery and kinsmanship is what we are trying to force on the Igbos. Especially those who have lived all their lives in their erosion ravaged villages...











They will charge you before doing anything.



Maka why na

Ahh. It is well

God help the child to grow and do wonders to the glory of his name. Amen

*Last night, i sent 5k to my girlfriend for her upkeep and she immediately used my picture as her whatsApp profile picture.*
*This morning i chatted her up with another number and asked her who was on her DP , she said it was her classmate that died of coronavirus*

*AFTER GOD FEAR WOMEN.

good of him

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