WASHINGTON — A 3-year-old girl managed to survive a fall from a fifth-floor window at an apartment complex in Fairfax County. The girl fell out of a window at the Skyline Towers Apartments in Bailey’s Crossroads at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, NBC Washington reports.
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Capt. Mike Fontana told NBC Washington that the girl’s injuries aren’t life-threatening, and that “some shrubs and some branches happened to break the fall.”
He adds that parents should safeguard their windows — don’t stack things in front of them that will make it easy for small children to climb up to the sill, and they should install window guards.
“Screens are not the same as window guards, they won’t prevent a small child from falling out of a window.”
As of Wednesday night, the girl was still in the hospital.
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