EVERETT, MASS. (WHDH) - A woman jumped from a second-story window and was carried by first responders to safety after her apartment building in Everett went up in flames Friday morning, video obtained by 7NEWS captured.
A man who lives across the street called 911 after fire broke out at the building on Franklin Street at approximately 10:30 a.m. He said firefighters quickly responded to the scene.
“They were here within, under a minute, and there was a lady on the second floor. She was hanging out of the window and they were telling her to get out of the house, but apparently she couldnt get out of the house,” said Bill Hurley, the neighbor who called 911.
Hurley said the woman eventually jumped out of the window to save herself from the fire.
“They were just getting the ladder up there, but she had to leave because she was being overwhelmed with smoke. The smoke was just billowing out all around her body,” Hurley said. “She had to jump from the second-floor window, and she missed the fence, but she hit pretty hard on the bottom and she had to be taken to the hospital. It was a terrible thing to see, I never want to see that again, the way she landed.”
Hurley said the woman was awake and talking after she jumped, but said she hit her head and was taken to the hospital.
Firefighters then worked to put out the fast-moving flames, saying they were already spreading up through the house when they arrived.
“When we got here, there was fire in the rear hallway ongoing to the second and third floor,” Everett Fire Deputy Mike Imbornone said.
Imbornone said crews had to call in extra help to get all the hot spots put out.
People who live on the street said they are just grateful the fire didn’t end in tragedy.
“I’m just glad everyone’s alive,” Hurley said.
Imbornone said a Revere firefighter also needed medical treatment.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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