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A 53-year-old Brooklyn man plunged to his death when an FDNY ladder suddenly gave way as he evacuated a Monday morning blaze at a Sunset Park apartment building, shocking video reviewed by The ...

He lowered himself on to the fire escape to rescue them. I took a position where I could photograph what I thought was an impending routine rescue. The ladder went up to pick them up - they were about ...

Video footage shows a man, identified as Ashiq Hussein, 53, falling from a fire rescue ladder as he was trying to escape from a burning apartment building in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The Brooklyn immigrant who plunged to his death as FDNY firefighters worked to save him from a fire in his apartment above a Brooklyn bodega fell after the rescue ladder he stepped onto suddenly ...