The NYPD released video from officers’ body-worn cameras that captured their rescue of a woman from a six-story apartment building fire in July.
by Staff
August 14, 2024
NYPD officers discharge a fire extinguisher in an apartment building after rescuing a woman from her apartment. The department this week released body-worn camera video of the rescue.
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The New York Police Department released body-worn camera video of officers responding to an apartment fire in Queens and rescuing a woman by calling out to her and removing obstructions blocking her escape path.
A bystander alerted nearby officers, and they quickly responded to the six-story building and braved their way through heavy smoke and dowsing of water from the sprinkler system, reported ABC7, to rescue a woman from an apartment July 19.
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Body-worn camera footage captured NYPD officers’ actions as they sprinted up the interior stairs until they encountered smoke. They located the fire in an apartment and kicked the door open, but the woman inside could not find her way out through the thick smoke.
“Walk to my voice,” one of the officers is heard yelling to the woman.
Through the thick smoke, the officers could not see the woman.
They dragged bicycles and other items from the smoke-filled apartment to clear a path to the doorway.
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“We’re coming mam,” an officer is heard telling the woman.
Once she reached the officers, they ushered her through the apartment doorway and down the hall toward the stairs leading out. Other officers are shown discharging a fire extinguisher.
Six of the eight officers who entered the building were treated for smoke inhalation.
Officers remove bicycles and other obstructions to clear a path so the woman can escape from her smoke-filled apartment.
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