Lee because of burns and cuts to his arms and hands.

Lee reached into the window and got one arm around the man’s back and one arm under his knees. Lee reached the window, the victim was crouched below the windowsill and fire was coming out over his head preventing him from standing. Lee locate him as he was lowered in zero visibility through heavy smoke and high heat. Lee climbed over the four-foot fence and positioned himself in line with the victim. Hawkins was tied off to the chimney and took the turns around the hook, FF. The victim stated that he was about to jump. Rush again asked the man to remain at the window. The unbearable conditions caused the elderly victim to disappear from the window a few times. Hawkins tied the rope off around a chimney, and FF. Lee proceeded to dump the contents of the LSR bag and handed the hook to FF. The fire started on the first floor and went up the interior stairs to the top floor and into the shaft.įF. The fire condition in the building was so extreme that the engine’s hoselines could not make it past the second floor, negating an interior rescue. Manning of the 10th Battalion that there was a trapped victim in the rear of the building and an LSR rescue was being set up. At this time, heavy black smoke and high heat were venting out over the man’s head. Lee made contact with the victim and also told him to stay where he was. Lee and advised that a life saving rope (LSR) rescue would be required.įF. Rush told the man to stay where he was because help was on the way. Francis Rush, the chauffeur of Rescue 1, that a civilian appeared at a top floor window. The roof and bulkhead of exposure 4 were also on fire. Lee saw fire blowing out of the shaft about 30 feet into the air. Lee, the roof firefighter, made his way to the roof of the fire building via exposure 2. 1 in Manhattan performed the feat at a six alarm fire in a five-story old law tenement and saved an 81-year-old man’s life. In the middle of the night on October 27, 2016, FF.

When there are no other options to rescue a trapped person, the only option is the roof rope rescue. The life saving rope rescue evolution is one of the rarest and most dangerous evolutions performed by firefighters.

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