A paramedic supervisor carried a disoriented resident down a ladder from a second-floor window during an overnight residential fire in St. Louis City, according to First Alert 4. The resident was hospitalized in serious condition.
The St. Louis Fire Department responded to the fire in the 4000 block of Castleman Avenue after receiving reports that people were trapped inside, the station reported. Fire officials said the resident became disoriented and entangled in a ladder at a second-floor window; the supervisor brought them down to the ground.
A separate St. Louis fire-rescue
The incident has a limited local point of comparison. On Dec. 30, 2020, firefighters and police rescued two young children from an apartment fire at 4400 W. Florissant Avenue, while an adult woman jumped from a second-story window, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. That earlier fire involved different occupants and circumstances; the two incidents illustrate separate rescue situations, not a trend in fire frequency or outcomes.
In the Castleman Avenue fire, two other occupants and the paramedic supervisor were evaluated at the scene and declined hospital transport, First Alert 4 reported. Officials have not released details about the fire’s cause, its effects on the building, or the hospitalized resident’s current condition.
