WNBC 4 – April 08, 2017
by Checkey Beckford
A man rescued a woman and a young girl from a burning home in the Bronx on Friday afternoon.
The dramatic rescue took place minutes after a raging fire erupted at a three-story residence on Croes Avenue around noon, officials said.
The woman and toddler were crying out from a second-floor window when witnesses say Miguel Robles grabbed a ladder and rushed across the street from his home on Westchester Avenue to help.
Around the same time Robles was rescuing the woman and girl, a father rushed out of the burning three-family home with his 1-year-old son and placed him into the arms of a police officer, witnesses said.
Two people suffered minor injuries in the fire and were treated at the scene, according to officials.
Ali Mustach, a relative of the boy, said the fire broke out on the child’s birthday.
“Tomorrow they were supposed to keep a birthday party,” Mustach said.
Despite the work of more than a hundred firefighters, the blaze destroyed much of the home, which an extended family had been living in for 25 years.
Still, there was a sense of relief on this block Friday night that no one was seriously injured.
“You just feel glad that they’re both safe,” Robles said.
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