Residents from a community in southwestern Alabama are praising a bystander who was caught on camera rescuing a woman from a three-alarm fire that tore through an apartment complex.
TORONTO -- Residents from a community in southwestern Alabama are praising a bystander who was caught on camera rescuing a woman from a three-alarm fire that tore throughan apartment complex.
Crews from the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department in Mobile, Alab., were dispatched Wednesday afternoon after answering a call for a building on fire just after 3 p.m. local time. Neighbours called 911 and said that three people were possibly trapped inside a unit of the two-storey apartment building,When firefighters arrived, the fire had already engulfed eight apartment units, or about one-third of the complex. After their assessment, search-and-rescue crews discovered that there was only one trapped resident, a woman who was struggling to escape from her first-floor apartment.
"A little girl had died in her apartment. We did all we could to get her out. But the smoke killed us. So anytime I see a fire like this and I'm able to help, I jump on it,”Parrish said.MFRD said the woman was looked at and treated at the scene by emergency responders and then taken to hospital. A screenshot from video showing Quinn Parrish pulling a woman from her apartment window as a three-alarm fire engulfed her apartment complex in Mobile, Alab., on May 20, 2020.
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