Firefighter Gerard McManus said he “saw a foot on the floor, felt the foot,” and pulled the Queens man from a burning house.
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Flames engulfed the home’s first and second floors just after 1:36 p.m. McManus, 42, who’s assigned to Ladder 155, broke through a fence, then entered through a rear door, and checked the basement and kitchen.
When the firefighter got to a dining room, “I saw a foot on the floor, felt the foot,” McManus said.
“He was in a little pocket of fire,” McManus said. “There were flames in the room in front of him, and in front of the house.”
McManus dragged the man through the rear door and back outside to members of Engine Co. 308 nearby.
Paramedics revived the man. He was in stable condition at Nassau Community Hospital, officials said.
“It’s a little surreal. Your training does take over,, said McManus, a 14-year-FDNY veteran who lives on Long Island. “It‘s a team effort. Without everyone else, I couldn’t have done what I did.”
One firefighter suffered minor injuries. The cause of the blaze remains under investigation, FDNY officials said.
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