Firefighters from L-176 strategically repositioned their truck’s aerial ladder to use it as an anchor to rescue the civilian by performing a last resort rescue tactic – the roof rope rescue. Afterwards, Firefighters were alerted that a civilian was present on the third floor window surrounded by heavy smoke.
L-176 and Ladder Company 120 (L-120) were on scene within minutes and reported a heavy smoke condition.įirefighters from L-120 brought an elderly woman to safety from the second floor. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.On Sunday, March 5th Firefighters of Ladder Company 176 (L-176) performed a rare roof rope rescue to save a civilian from a fire on Rockaway Avenue in Brooklyn.Īt 7:33 a.m., FDNY received a call for reports of fire on the first floor at a house of worship in Brownsville, Brooklyn. “Firefighters hiked down the hill through waist-deep brush expecting the worst, but found the driver of the truck was still alive but severely injured and ill,” officials said.Ĭowlitz County is in southwest Washington. They also spotted a truck in the ravine that matched the description of the vehicle belonging to the missing man and reported it to rescuers, fire officials said. No one knew where the man had gone for more than five days until residents spotted tire tracks leading to the ravine. He drove off the road and plunged 150 feet down a steep and “heavily wooded” ravine before landing at the bottom, rescuers said.
The 56-year-old man was found alive in his green truck Sunday, May 21, in Cowlitz County, according to Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue.
Tire tracks led rescuers to a man who had been missing for more than five days at the bottom of a ravine in Washington, fire officials said.
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