They didn’t know people fell down the elevator,” said Felipe. “The police officers just was thinking people was stuck in the elevator. “Two ‘booms!’”įelipe believed the sounds of the men falling may have been boxes, but when first responders arrived needing to access the shaft, he realized what had happened. “It was just like a ‘boom!’” said dollar store employee Omar Felipe. The elevator door opened to an empty shaft and the two fell inside and down to a ground-floor dollar store, cops and a witness said.

The 29-year-old victim, a loss prevention officer for Target, was fighting with the 16-year-old - who had been caught shoplifting - when they rammed into the closed elevator door, police sources with knowledge of the case said. The rescued women were handed to the care of EMS workers, who took them from the scene “within a few minutes,” Leeb said.FDNY members transport one of two people who fell down a shaft at 700 Exterior St. “It’s an extremely rare type of rescue to put four members on a rope. “It was 100% teamwork,” said Darren Harsch, one of the four firefighters who roped down to the scene. “Training and preparation is what it’s all about.” “It was an incredibly dangerous situation, to put our members on a rope from the 20th floor,” he added. A third person in the apartment was rescued from the inside as the blaze was knocked down, said Leeb.Ī rope rescue “is a last resort in the FDNY,” said Leeb.

THANK U to our heroes!!!! #FDNY /Dxp44I9D89- Patti Ryan November 5, 2022įirefighters used the lifesaving rope to pull one more tenant from the burning apartment. Woman rescued by #NYBRAVEST #FDNY in apt fire, tried to escape smoke, she slipped, hung 15 stories up. #FDNY in my ENTIRE life I've never seen anything more #HEROIC than what i witnessed from #NYC apt.

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