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Manhattan, NY - Firefighters kicked in the door of a smoke-filled upper Manhattan apartment early Wednesday and pulled an unconscious woman to safety, officials said.
A mattress fire sparked just before 3:30 a.m., sending choking smoke through the apartment and preventing the woman from escaping on her own, firefighters said.
Overcome by fumes, the woman passed out and was on the verge of going into cardiac arrest when Firefighter Mike Wunder of Ladder Co. 36 reached her.
"She was wedged between the bed and the wall," said Wunder, an 18-year veteran of the FDNY.
Wunder, 43, and another firefighter knocked the bed aside to reach the woman and ran her down four flights of stairs to an ambulance on Isham St.
"She was barely breathing on her own," said Firefighter Steve Brunner, who carried the woman into the ambulance, "But once we put the mask on, she came around."
The cause of the fire, which started in a spare bedroom, was still under investigation but did not appear suspicious, FDNY officials said. "This is my second one," said Wunder, who said he saved a woman from a fire on Pinehurst Ave. five years ago.
"It feels great - like we did our job."
The victim - who neighbors knew as Cynthia, a flight attendant from Israel - was at Harlem Hospital in serious but stable condition.
"She's really nice," neighbor Christine Gross said. "Tall, outgoing, friendly. She loves cats, loves to travel."
Though one of the woman's cats was pulled from the blaze, a second died in the fire and three others are missing, neighbors said.
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Jun 17, 2009 at 09:10 PM Anonymous Says:
lets say kel maleh rachamim for the cats peta eat a pita
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Jun 17, 2009 at 09:27 PM Anonymous Says:
“ lets say kel maleh rachamim for the cats peta eat a pita ”
your comment is disgusting...the ribbon shel olam created cats for a reason and for many elderly yidden, they are the only companions they have. PETA may take some extreme positions but their focus in on tzar ba'alay chayim.
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Jun 17, 2009 at 10:24 PM Anonymous Says:
“ your comment is disgusting...the ribbon shel olam created cats for a reason and for many elderly yidden, they are the only companions they have. PETA may take some extreme positions but their focus in on tzar ba'alay chayim. ”
Peta is extremely out of line and they shouldn't get any recognition
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Jun 17, 2009 at 10:11 PM me Says:
PETA are the biggest hypocrites on the face of the earth. They kill 2000 animals a year because it's more expedient and cheapier than feeding them and cleaning up after them.
petakillsanimals.com
The real question is... was the woman wearing a chenille robe?
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Jun 18, 2009 at 06:11 AM Anonymous Says:
Wow. Its like a scene out of the show "Rescue Me"