An off-duty firefighter saved a woman's life when pulled her from a burning car without any any protective equipment or a hose line, officials in Connecticut said.
Nicholas Perri Jr. “gained access to the well involved vehicle and successfully removed the badly injured female driver as flames were entering the passenger compartment,” the Brookfield Fire Department said in a statement.
The statement said that he carried the woman to an EMS and she was later transferred to hospital. It added that he only sustained minor injuries and refused transport.NBC New York“I assessed how she was in there and then I broke the front passenger window. I was able to get one of her legs free, the other was pretty mangled -- it was giving me a hard time,” he said. “I was just yelling, ‘You got to work with me because we are running out of time here.
Brookfield Fire Dept. Chief Andrew Ellis told the station that he was among the first responders and was surprised to see a fellow firefighter.This article was originally published on
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