Another FDNY probie saves one – 3 children brought out of Brooklyn apartment fire
Previously: FDNY probie Jordan Sullivan rescues child[/
Four people were injured Tuesday in a high rise apartment building fire in East New York section of Brooklyn.
The fire broke out on the fourth floor of the Pink Houses, short for the Louis H. Pink city run apartment complex, just after 11:00 a.m.
The injured include three children, ages 8, 5 and 3. One is in critical condition, and was taken to Brookdale University Hospital.
The other two are in serious condition. Their conditions are not believed to be life threatening.
Rich Shapiro & Tina Moore, New York Daily News:
Firefighter Justin Tallett, a 27-year-old veteran of the Afghan War, drew the dangerous assignment, and ducked into the smoke-filled apartment to search for the 4-year-old. Tallett found him in a bedroom, on the far side of the apartment.
“He was unconscious when I found him,” said Tallett, who returned from Afghanistan in 2012 and is a probationary member of the FDNY, assigned to Brooklyn’s Ladder 107. “It looked like he was sleeping.”
Dana Sauchelli & Jennifer Bain, New York Post:
One of the little boys, wearing only his underwear, wasn’t breathing when firefighters saved him from the burning apartment. They gave the child CPR before pulling him out of the smoky building through the front door.
Firefighters attacking the blaze from the outside of the building rescued the other two children through a fourth-floor window, witnesses said.
“They brought the other two out from the window. They had smoke on them too,” (Neighbor Darrell) Wright said.
