A man died after an FDNY ladder retracted during a fire rescue, causing him to plummet to the sidewalk below. Video shows the man stepping onto the ladder, just before the top section of it collapsed.
The Brooklyn immigrant who plunged to his death as FDNY firefighters worked to save him from a fire in his apartment above a Brooklyn bodega fell after the rescue ladder he stepped onto suddenly ...
It was 8:46 Thursday morning and FDNY Engine 3, Ladder 12 was ordered into formation by Chief John Gormley. There they stood in dress blues, shoulder-to-shoulder, in straight lines that went six deep.