NBC New York
NEW YORK — A man was rescued from the fifth floor of his burning Washington Heights apartment building Monday by a couple of helpful people with a ladder.
The rescue, captured on video, shows several building workers stretching a ladder across a fire escape into a window one floor down from where a man was dangling from a burning apartment’s window on 172nd Street.
Witnesses said the man appeared desperate enough to jump.
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