Firefighter Brian Quinn saved a woman who had moved onto a window sill during a fire. Photo / FDNY, Instagram
A New York firefighter has rescued a woman from the window sill of her 16th floor apartment to escape smoke from a blaze.
When the smoke from the apartment fire became too much, the woman stood on her window's ledge 50m above the ground, NBC reports.
Firefighter Brian Quinn, who
was at the window a floor above the woman, told NBC New York that he tried to drop a rope down that the terrified woman didn't take.
He said: "I basically stayed at the window and tried to calm her down, and tell her not to jump and that we were going to come get her."
Quinn's daring rescue involved rappelling down and pulling her into a bear hug.
