Firefighter pulls Queens man out of burning home by his foot

Firefighter Gerard McManus said he “saw a foot on the floor, felt the foot,” and pulled the Queens man from a burning house.


An eagle-eyed smoke-eater rescued an unconscious, burned man from a Queens house fire Wednesday afternoon, after spotting his foot through heavy smoke.

Firefighter Gerard McManus rescued the man, who’s in his 50s, from the first floor of a house on 140th St. near 133rd Ave. in South Ozone Park.
Flames engulfed the house’s first and second floors just after 1:36 p.m.
When the firefighter got to a dining room, “I saw a foot on the floor, felt the foot,” McManus said.

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