Some people wake up with the intention of saving lives. Others end up doing it on their way to work.

Such was the case for Kris Loeb, a project manager with Borsello Landscaping. On his way to a job site on the morning of Dec. 3, Loeb was passing through the intersection of 17th Street and Bancroft Parkway when he noticed a Ford Expedition on its roof at the next light. Another vehicle nearby had front-end damage.

“As I approached the Expedition,” he says, “there was a woman, uninjured, climbing out of the broken passenger-side window.” Neighbors came outside, one of whom Loeb knew. “We asked the woman if she was all right. She said she was fine but that her baby was still in the backseat. My friend tried the rear door on the passenger side, and it was stuck. We went around to the driver’s side, and I gave the rear door a pull and it opened. I ducked down and peered into the truck, and there he was, suspended by the straps in the car seat.” The child appeared unharmed, Loeb says, and was, to his surprise, not crying. Climbing inside, he positioned himself under the baby and supported the seat while Loeb’s fellow rescuer unbuckled the seatbelt. After handing the baby over to his mother and giving his information to police officers—who arrived just a few minutes after the rescue—Loeb continued on to work.

“It was a pretty intense moment,” he says. “Nothing too dramatic, but an experience nonetheless.”