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Bronx baby falls from 5th floor but may survive

A 14-month-old girl tumbled out a fifth-story window at her family’s Bronx apartment today — but is miraculously expected to survive, authorities and neighbors said.

There are no window guards on any of the six-floor building’s upper floors, sources said. Window guards are required by law in apartments were young children live.

The baby, Xania Samuels, was rushed to Jacobi Hospital with head trauma after her near-death drop from the building at 3230 Cruger Ave. in Bronxwood. She was listed in critical condition as of 4:30 p.m.

The plunge, which cops say was an accident, occurred at 11:29 am.

According to a first responder, no one realized that the tot had fallen out the window until at least 7 minutes after the incident. The father was giving the girl’s twin brother a bath at the time of the fall, cops said. The babies’ mother was at a Laundromat. Neither parent was charged with any crimes.

Willis Sands, a 57-year-old emergency medical technician from Long Island, said he stumbled upon the baby “laying lifelessly” on a bloody cement pavement while dropping off some laundry nearby.

He initially thought the infant was a “doll” but soon after “screamed for a mother, and no one came.”

Sands said he turned the girl on her side to maintain her airwaves and called 9-11. Within five minutes, emergency assistance arrived. Two minutes later, after a fire truck came by, the father stuck his head out the window and screamed “Oh my God! Oh my God!” the EMT added.

“That’s when I realized someone had fallen out a window,” Sands said.

“[The father] was in shock,” said Eric Brown, who lives on the sixth floor, one flight above the baby and her family.

Brown said she ran outside and saw the baby’s limp body on a bloody pavement “twisted up with blood coming from her head.”

Other neighbors said she wearing a diaper on, one slipper and wrapped up in a pink blanket. ” I have five children of my own, so it made sick seeing her like that,” he said.

Additional reporting by Lorena Mongelli