Almost 50 years later, a baby rescued from a fire meets the man whose actions saved her

WORCESTER, Mass. — For nearly a half-century, a tiny spark of a memory smoldered in former city firefighter Albert M. Toney Jr.’s head.

In the memory, he is outside a burning apartment on Aug. 5, 1972, manning the fire rescue vehicle he drove to the scene, when a police officer shoves a tiny baby girl into his arms amidst shouts from neighbors that the child is not breathing.