{"id":62260,"date":"2025-06-02T07:13:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62260"},"modified":"2025-06-02T07:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:13:40","slug":"miraculous-2-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62260","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Miraculous\u2019: 2-year-old\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-42.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-42.png 526w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-42-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-42-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A 2-year-old boy survived a fall from the 15th floor of a high-rise apartment building in Maryland when he landed in bushes and mulch on the ground, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fall occurred Thursday afternoon from the apartment\u2019s private balcony, which has protective glass, not a railing, according to Montgomery County police spokesperson Shiera Goff. Adults were home at the time, Goff told ABC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The child suffered \u201ctraumatic\u201d injuries and went with a parent to a local hospital, according to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe child hit the bushes and landed in mulch, softening the impact,\u201d Fire and Rescue Service Assistant Chief David Pazos told ABC News, calling it \u201cmiraculous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis age and size and weight is really what helped, because if he had been any heavier, he may not have survived,\u201d Goff said. \u201cI think it was a combination of those bushes being there, those shrubs, and his size and weight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was so scared,\u201d a mom in the area told Washington, D.C., ABC affiliate WJLA. \u201cI was just thinking if it were my daughter, what will I do?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The toddler\u2019s current condition is not clear, Goff said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police department\u2019s investigation is ongoing, Goff said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62192\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2-year-old boy survived a fall from the 15th floor of a high-rise apartment building in Maryland when he landed in bushes and mulch on the ground,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62262,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62260\/revisions\/62262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}