Police officer Alan Franks is being hailed as a hero for catching a baby thrown out of a burning building in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Alan was one of a number of officers who saw smoke and flames coming from the apartment building and rushed to do what he could to help. Mr Franks told the local TV news: 'There were just flames everywhere, probably about six or seven feet high, thick black smoke. You could barely see anything when I arrived.' Franks then added: 'One of the males was cradling a little baby, eight to 12-months-old, and told me, 'Catch my baby, I'm going to drop him down to you.' 'He put the baby in a laying position and dropped the baby down. I caught the baby.' Franks, who has been with the force for 19 years, said he never thought he would be catching a baby when he came to work on that particular morning. The humble police officer said, 'The dad came up to me later at the division, grabbed me, shook my hand, said, 'Thank you for catching my baby.' Other officers at the scene also did their best to help the rest of the residents of the building including Jerry Moynihan. Jerry said, 'They were doing what they thought was best to do, which was get over there as fast as they could, save as many lives as they could and they did a wonderful job.' The Tulsa World reported that one person was taken to hospital and investigators have said that the fire at the west end of the second floor was likely caused by an unattended cooking accident.