Man saves baby from awning in Brooklyn

On Friday afternoon, an 18-month-old toddler escaped out of her second-storey window in Brooklyn.

She squeezed past an air conditioning unit and crawled onto the roof, then the awning above a computer store.

Thanks to a quick-thinking stranger, little Ayana was rescued before her cute escape turned tragic.

Qing Chen, who works at a nearby pharmacy, was the first person to spot the baby on the roof.

"She was crawling back and forth and to the edge, she was about to fall off. And that's when we yelled at her and [she] crawled back to where the letter 'O' was and she sat there. We screamed at her, said: 'Don't move!' And [she] started crying and she just sat there," Chen told Eyewitness News.

Chen, who himself has an eight-month-old daughter, sprinted across the street to help.

"I was running across the street, I didn’t pay attention to traffic. All I was looking at and focused on was if the baby was gonna fall, and if she was, I was gonna hurry up and catch her," he told CBS New York.

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Other rescuers put up a ladder, but couldn't reach the little girl. Chen dashed into the building and banged on the apartment's door.

The child's grandmother answered the door.

"I said, 'Where's your baby?' She was in shock. And I was like, 'Your baby is outside and she's about to fall off of the roof,'" Chen said.

The woman had been cooking inside and didn't realize her granddaughter wasn't in her room.

Chen then crawled through the little girl's window and climbed onto the awning to rescue her.

"When I grabbed her, I almost came to tears because I have a baby that big and that old," Chen said.

The little girl was taken to the hospital as a precaution. She is doing well and is back home with her mother. No charges will be laid.

"I don't feel like hero or anything like that. Anybody would step in like that," Chen insisted.