'I'm going to save the baby'

Tyler Snowden holds the baby he rescued in a photo with the grateful family: Joel Mancia Paguada, Judith Avila Padilla and their children Abner, Caleb and Grace. Photo: Brittany Cart

We've been hearing a lot about toxic masculinity these days. Here's another story: A teen-age boy saw black smoke billowing from a neighbor's house and heard her screams. He picked up his stepfather's ladder, ran down the street and rescued the woman, her seven-year-old son and her baby girl from the porch roof. The Cleveland Fire Department arrived a minute later.

Tyler Sowden, 16, said he told himself that he had to save the baby. Once he did that, he went back for the older brother and then for the mother.