PHILLIPS: Good Samaritan? Oh, he's more than a good Samaritan. He's a lifesaver and a little boy in the Bronx owes him his life. A dramatic scene caught on camera, a new hero emerges. CNN's Tony Harris has more.</s>TONY HARRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's an image you never hope to see, smoke pouring from an apartment building. For one man that image, the sound of screams, was enough to move him to action. Horia Cretan stepped outside his shop, grabbed a ladder, and climbed up to the fire escape. What happened next is truly dramatic.</s>HORIA CRETAN, RESCUED BOY FROM FIRE: I guess I just kicked in, I kicked in gear. I put the ladder down. I went upstairs and I did the best I could.</s>HARRIS: Firefighters inside the building handed Cretan a limp, four-year-old boy. He carried the child down the fire escape. At a landing, he kept telling the child to breathe, breathe.</s>CRETAN: He couldn't breathe. I just held his head up. I put my hand underneath his neck so he could breathe better. I felt his heartbeat. It was faint, but it was all right. And I made sure I protected him with the curtain because they were throwing glass from on top of the stairs. But he's fine.</s>HARRIS: Firefighters rushed the boy to the hospital still alive, thanks to the stranger who kicked into gear and risked his own life.</s>PHILLIPS: That story once again from our own Tony Harris. The boy was listed in serious but stable condition after he was taken to the hospital. He is expected to be okay. And speaking of heroes, tonight beginning at 11:00 Eastern, Anderson Cooper introduces the Top Ten CNN Heroes of 2009. Watch Anderson at the top of each hour, then see all of the Heroes tonight at 11:00 Eastern on a special edition of "AC 360." I'm Kyra Phillips. I'll see you back here tomorrow from 1:00 to 3:00. Now, Rick Sanchez take it from here.
The Lifesaver in the Bronx