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.
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Where was the net? Sounds like a response team was already on scene
Six floors might be too high for a “net” or cushion?
Would even a professional stung man try it from that height?
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.
A 60 foot drop or be burned alive? I’m jumping, too. Glad she made it.
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.
Poor dear. She was brave.
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
Prayers up for that poor child.
Stung man
Stuned man?
Stuntman?
What are we doing here?!?
“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.
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