Firefighters Save Man From Early
Inside, fire had consumed the bedroom and was
rolling across the ceiling and down the hallway.
FDNY Insider 2/6/09
Capt. Michael Callan and Firefighters Luke Jurain and Dan Gordon from Ladder 47 saved a Bronx man from an early morning apartment fire on Feb. 6.
“They did a tremendous job,” said Capt. Callan, who also was involved with the rescue. “They came in and picked him up and dragged him out with no hesitation at all.”
A call was received at 1:58 a.m. for a fire on the first floor of a six-story brick building on Pugsley Avenue.
As firefighters from Ladder 47 made their way to the scene, they heard reports that there was a victim trapped inside.
When they arrived, they saw fire coming out two windows and neighbors were outside screaming that there was someone trapped in the apartment. They had banged on the apartment’s windows and one of them had kicked in the front door.
Capt. Callan and Firefighters Jurain and Gordon made their way through the building in the direction of the fire.
Inside, fire had consumed the bedroom and was rolling across the ceiling and down the hallway. Capt. Callan said he tried to close the door to the bedroom to contain the fire, but “it had burned through the door.”
There they found a man lying on his back, unresponsive, in the doorway.
The firefighters lifted him and carried him to members of Engine 64 and 96, who said the man had a pulse, but was not breathing and had suffered severe burns. They performed CPR on the man before passing him off to EMS members, who transported him to Jacobi Medical Center. Three other civilians also suffered smoke inhalation in the fire.
This was the first rescue for Firefighter Gordon, who graduated from the Fire Academy in December 2008.
“We’re all kind of tired,” said Firefighter Jurain. “But it feels great.”
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