NY Daily News
NEW YORK — City firefighters brought a 9-month-old boy to safety from a raging Brooklyn inferno on Wednesday.
Smoke-eater Rhyan Wischertch, of Engine 283, carried infant Gerard DeBellot Jr., dressed in a maroon T-shirt with white stripes and swaddled in a baby blue towel, to awaiting EMS after the 2:59 p.m. blaze. Other firefighters had shielded the infant from the flames in the three-story building on Church Ave. and E. 48 St. in East Flatbush, according to the FDNY.
The fire began in a front room of the apartment and the infant, his grandmother and two male family members rushed to the back room to escape the flames, family members said.
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