A terrified East Point, Georgia mother said she watched her 1-year-old baby boy fall down a storm drain Sunday evening while they were sitting on the edge of their street.
She frantically called 911, and firefighters were on the scene within minutes.
“I was saying if you all don’t hurry up I’m going to jump in there myself,” mother T’pring Brown said she told the dispatcher.
When the East Point Fire Department arrived and lifted the drain’s cover, the opening was too small for a normal sized person to fit through.
She lifted him over her head and up to safety.
Both of them got away with minor scrapes and bruises.
“That’s when the tears came, it was just great to get him and see that he was safe,” Tullis said. “It definitely was a joint effort, so everybody was laughing, hugging, cheering and clapping.”
Even with her fear of small spaces, Tullis said she’d rather go down another storm drain that have to continue to run through the media gauntlet.
“The rescue was relatively quick, just a half hour or so,” Tullis said. “The media attention looks like it’s going to go on for a few more days, but I don’t really mind.”
Last year Tullis got an award from her department for rescuing two animals from 30-foot storm drains.
Without her extra gear on, Tullis barely fit through the drain’s opening Sunday.
