Rogue
06-21-2007, 05:04 PM
June 21, 2007
A 23-year-old firefighter from Ladder 146 died this afternoon after he fell several floors while battling a blaze in Brooklyn.
The fire broke out just before 5 p.m. at four-story building on Meserole Street in Williamsburg and took over an hour to extinguish.
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said Queens resident Daniel Pujdak slipped while on the roof and fell to the ground.
Witnesses say it was a frightening scene.
“When I see him step up on the roof, I just seen him tumbling down,” said one witness. “That’s all I saw, him tumbling down. I just shut my van off and ran to the scene.”
“It was bad,” said another witness. “He was coming down really quick. He was coming down screaming.”
Pujdak was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
He had been on the job for two years.
No one else was injured in the fire.
Fire officials say the fire was caused by an unattended cigarette left by the window.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=70990
A 23-year-old firefighter from Ladder 146 died this afternoon after he fell several floors while battling a blaze in Brooklyn.
The fire broke out just before 5 p.m. at four-story building on Meserole Street in Williamsburg and took over an hour to extinguish.
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said Queens resident Daniel Pujdak slipped while on the roof and fell to the ground.
Witnesses say it was a frightening scene.
“When I see him step up on the roof, I just seen him tumbling down,” said one witness. “That’s all I saw, him tumbling down. I just shut my van off and ran to the scene.”
“It was bad,” said another witness. “He was coming down really quick. He was coming down screaming.”
Pujdak was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
He had been on the job for two years.
No one else was injured in the fire.
Fire officials say the fire was caused by an unattended cigarette left by the window.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=70990