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Girl jumps from 6th-floor apartment to escape fire in NYC
nbc ^ | April 29, 2021, 9:39 AM PDT | Wilson Wong and Matteo Moschella

Posted on 05/01/2021 1:59:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The young girl broke both her legs, but is expected to survive, according to the New York City Fire Department, NBC New York reported.

The fire broke out Wednesday around 6 p.m. ET in the 500 block of 169th Street in the Bronx, the FDNY said. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the blaze, but it took more than 100 firefighters to put it out.

When the smoke became too overwhelming, the girl leaped from her balcony — at least a 60-foot drop to the ground, NBC New York reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: bronx; jump; newyork

1 posted on 05/01/2021 1:59:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Where was the net? Sounds like a response team was already on scene


2 posted on 05/01/2021 2:04:35 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise

Six floors might be too high for a “net” or cushion?

Would even a professional stung man try it from that height?


3 posted on 05/01/2021 2:06:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Dang! Glad she’ll survive and hopefully run like Forrest Gump.

But by the photo it looks like the building is ready to collapse anyway so better it burns down now.


4 posted on 05/01/2021 2:17:58 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: BenLurkin

A 60 foot drop or be burned alive? I’m jumping, too. Glad she made it.


5 posted on 05/01/2021 2:18:53 PM PDT by dainbramaged ( Zulus to the Southwest - thousands of 'em.)
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To: BenLurkin

Dar Robinson holds the record:

At 220 feet, the stunt from Atlanta’s Hyatt Regency Hotel (doubling for the Westin Peachtree Plaza) in the 1981 Burt Reynolds film Sharky’s Machine still holds up as the highest free-fall stunt ever performed from a building for a commercially released film.


6 posted on 05/01/2021 2:21:55 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: BenLurkin

Poor dear. She was brave.


7 posted on 05/01/2021 2:24:34 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: Eddie01
THE ULTIMATE STUNTMAN A Tribute to Dar Robinson
8 posted on 05/01/2021 2:53:00 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: BenLurkin

its all about the landing

people die falling off step ladders

she is very fortunate to have landed not on organs, rupturing them and bleeding out

or on her head/neck, ditto

breaking both legs, shes still losing a lot of blood, but her internals and brain are not damaged to cause quick death


9 posted on 05/01/2021 3:48:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

Prayers up for that poor child.


10 posted on 05/01/2021 4:06:41 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: BenLurkin

Stung man


11 posted on 05/01/2021 5:49:46 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: al baby

Stuned man?


12 posted on 05/01/2021 5:53:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: al baby

Stuntman?

What are we doing here?!?


13 posted on 05/01/2021 6:11:20 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

“It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the blaze, but it took more than 100 firefighters to put it out.”

LOL, other than 95% of the fires there being ‘insurance jobs’, I have NO CLUE as to what caused the fire.


14 posted on 05/01/2021 8:53:20 PM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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