Soldier home for holidays died saving lives in Bronx inferno

NY Post ^ | December 29, 2017 | Joe Marino

[McGruff]

An Army solider died in the Bronx inferno Thursday night — while heroically rushing in and out of the apartment building to save several other lives, his grieving dad told The Post.

“That’s his nature,” said Kwabena Mensah, 62, whose son Emmanuel died when the Belmont building went up in flames.

“He was trying to help people out from the fire, and unfortunately he lost his life. He tried to do his best.

[Klemper]

Yes I do know its important. Closing that door probably would have saved lives. Like someone on the thread stated, (and I’m paraphrasing), “The baby-mama should be prosecuted for not keeping an eye on her 3 year old who had a propensity for playing with the stove.”)

If she only had a fire extinguisher in the kitchen, and knew how to use it, also most likely would have saved lives.

[jocon307]

I do not know about prosecuting her, that’s for others to judge, but it could have happened entirely accidentilly (sp?), it’s very frightening, esp. in the early evening like that to see so much loss of life.