Gust of wind blows child lady in stroller into Lake Michigan in Chicago, man dives in to save lots of little one

CHICAGO — A gust of wind blew a child lady in a stroller into Lake Michigan on Wednesday afternoon.

Police stated the stroller with the 8-month-old inside fell within the water on Chicago’s North Facet at about 3 p.m.

A number of witnesses on the scene shortly reacted and rescued the infant from the water, police stated.

The little lady was taken to Lurie Kids’s Hospital for remark and was initially listed in good situation, CPD stated.

Lio Cundiff says he would not even swim, however knew he had solely seconds to behave when he noticed what occurred.

“Her child may’ve been gone,” Cundiff stated. “I see a stroller getting blown into the lake… and a girl screaming.”

Her mom was watching helplessly, he stated.

“I can inform she was too panicked to do something, so I used to be, like, ‘I assume I am leaping in,'” Cundiff stated. “That child was – I wasn’t going to let that child die. That is loopy.”

Cundiff spoke to our sister station WLS-TV from his hospital mattress following the harrowing rescue. Regardless of hotter air temperatures this week, Lake Michigan stays frigid.

“I am simply glad the stroller was up, not face down,” Cundiff stated. “The child dipped beneath a pair occasions, however I used to be in a position to preserve her up. And he or she was respiration and crying after we obtained her out.”

Different witnesses helped them again on dry land.

“I hope she has a very cool future, and I am comfortable I used to be there,” Cundiff stated.

Cundiff says he is within the hospital for coronary heart monitoring and hopes to be launched after an in a single day keep.