TIMING IS EVERYTHING

An amazing instance of right place, right time saved the life of a toddler in Burbank, Calif. Konrad and Jennifer Lightner were carrying a box-spring mattress as part of a move when they looked up and saw a 3-year-old dangling from a cord out of a third-floor window. Konrad quickly positioned the mattress under the boy, then partly broke the child’s fall before he landed safely on the mattress. “It was very surreal afterwards,” Jennifer said. “We were just moving the rest of the day, and every once in a while we’d look at each other and just be like, ‘That happened. That was real.’”