Normally, the longtime letter carrier doesn't get to 306 Second St. until about 2 p.m. But on Monday, Harrell had an Express Mail package to be delivered to the address before noon.
So at 11 a.m., Harrell walked to the home's door and saw a 1-year-old girl in the second-story window above her head. She rang the doorbells to both the upstairs and downstairs apartments, not knowing which tenant the package was for.
A moment later, she felt something strike her shoulder and instinctively put out her arms. "I noticed the upstairs window open halfway," she said. "The baby fell right into my arms. Everything happened so quick."
Police said the baby's mother, Brenda Morales, ran outside, grabbed her child from Harrell and ran up the street to her mother's house.
She did pause to say thank you, Harrell said. She told the woman she was lucky. "I said, 'You should never have had that window open. Your baby could be dead,' " Harrell said. "Thank God the baby was OK."
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