There were no firetrucks back there, so that’s not going to work. “If we had gotten a 35-foot ladder to the rear (of the building), it wouldn’t have reached him because he was on the fifth floor. With the fire beginning to overtake his home, firefighters had just seconds to think about how to save him. That’s when a few of the firefighters heard the calls for help. Soon the order came over the scanner – everyone needed to evacuate the building because of the risk the fire posed to the firefighters’ lives. We’ve got fire on the fourth floor.’ You know you’re sitting there going – we thought we were coming here for a fire on the first floor, and it’s everywhere,” recalled firefighter Andy Hawkins. “It was almost comical when you listen on the radio that ‘We’ve got fire on the first floor.’ Okay, we can handle that. Even the responding firefighters couldn’t believe the enormity of what they were battling. More than 200 firefighters responded within minutes to the six-alarm fire that overtook the five-story building where Duffy lived. Officials said a lithium ion battery attached to an e-bike in that same unit is what sparked the fire.The blaze engulfed the five-story building.

The hospital wouldn't provide specifics on individual patients' conditions.įirst responders had no choice but to pull off a rare and risky rope rescue to save two people on the 20th floor.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital said it received 34 patients from the fire and had released 28 as of Sunday evening. Two civilians were taken to a hospital in critical condition and two in serious condition, the fire department said.

TURTLE BAY, Manhattan (WABC) - Firefighters are trying to warn people about the dangers of improperly stored or charging lithium batteries after 46 people were injured in a high-rise fire in Manhattan Saturday. A total of 46 civilians, firefighters and police officers were injured in a high-rise fire in Manhattan Saturday, the FDNY said Sunday.

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