A REMARKABLE little girl has played down the moment she caught a baby thrown from a burning building, saying: "In our family we take care of our neighbours no matter what."

Zna Gresham, 10, caught her neighbour’s newborn baby after it was thrown from the second floor window at an apartment building in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur.

Fire crews said the panicked neighbours were left with no choice but to throw the baby along with their two other toddlers after a fire broke out in the building.

Zna told local TV she was called upon to help after she fled the burning building.

“The lady from upstairs, she was dropping her babies and she asked me and my sister can she get the babies for her," she told WSB-TV.

"I caught the newborn baby from falling. Before it had hit the ground I caught it."

The other two children, ages 2 and 3, hit the ground and suffered minor injuries in the fall, according to fire officials.

Officials said two adults were hospitalized but were also expected to survive.

They said the fire appeared to have begun in a kitchen in a first-floor unit of the complex. More than a dozen residents were forced from their homes.

