Update, Wednesday AM: Video added, scroll down.
A FIRE IN A BRONX, NEW YORK CITY, HIGH-RISE Monday afternoon presented FDNY firefighters with a rescue challenge. When they first arrived at the 2 pm fire there was a woman trapped behind window safety bars holding a 7-month-old infant out of the window to give it air to breathe.
Vanessa Scott holds her infant cousin out of the
4th-floor window while they await the arrival
of the firefighters.
(New York Daily News photo by Maya Tucker)
The firefighters immediately laddered the 5th-floor window securing the baby and then removed the bars, freeing eight more people who were trapped by the flames.
The fire is believed to have started in a closet and spread into the foyer preventing them from escaping. Another occupant, a man, survived by jumping from another window in the apartment, but he suffered serious injuries from the fall. Twelve people altogether were injured, mostly from smoke inhalation, and were transported.
WNYW-TV later filed this video report:
The fire took about an hour to be extinguished.
NY1 has more and a video report HERE.
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