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Summary St Bernard said he was walking home from work when he observed a commotion.
A New York City bus driver was being hailed as a hero for saving a seven-year-old girl who fell three storeys from an air conditioning unit outside a Brooklyn building.I just prayed that Id catch her, Stephen St. Bernard recalled after rescuing the child.Please let me catch her, please let me catch her. Thats all I could say, he added.Mr St Bernard said he was walking home from work when he observed a commotion outside the Coney Island housing complex. He saw the girl standing on the air conditioning unit, seemingly unafraid and moving about.It wasnt clear how she got there, but witnesses told the Daily News that she crawled out by pulling aside the units accordion-like plastic partitions that keep the air conditioner secured in the window.An amateur video shows Mr St Bernard yelling up to the girl, telling her to go back inside when she suddenly falls and he catches her in his arms.I picked her up and carried her. ... She kept looking around. She never closed her eyes. She never lost consciousness, he said.The girl was taken to a Coney Island hospital with minor injuries. Mr St. Bernard, a father of four, suffered a torn tendon in his shoulder.Neighbours said the girl was a special needs child.Police said no charges were filed against the parents.
