A beloved Brooklyn
mom died in a smoky
blaze Monday despite
her daughter's
desperate attempt to
save her.
Flames and dense
smoke closed in on
Sandra Lubin's
fifth-floor
apartment in the
Bayview Houses in
Canarsie just after
6 a.m. Her daughter,
Jessica, frantically
tried to reach her
mom.
"I heard her
yelling, 'Mom! Mom!
Mom!'" said Krisha
Belgrove, who lives
on the same floor.
"And she tried to
pull her out of the
apartment but she
just couldn't."
Carla Theodore,
Lubin's niece, said
Jessica was driven
back by the fire.
"She couldn't even
get past the door,"
said
Theodore,
23. "It was too
much. The smoke
itself was making
her choke. She
couldn't see her mom
through it."
Sixty firefighters
responded to the E.
102nd St. building.
Lubin, 43, died at
the scene, officials
said."Jessica isn't
doing good," said
Theodore. "She feels
guilty that she
couldn't save her
mom."
Lubin fell asleep
while smoking in
bed, cops said.
In a separate fire
in Far Rockaway,
Queens, Monday,
Angela Dobles, 92,
died when a rubbish
fire broke out in
her apartment,
police and FDNY
officials said.
