When extinguishing a fire in a 3-storey building on Mayflower Avenue in district Pelham Bay (NY) injured 2 employee of the FDNY. One of the firefighters, 38-year-old father of 3 children in critical condition.
According to police, he fell from a sliding ladder from a height of 9 meters. With injuries to the neck and back firefighter were taken to Jacobi Hospital. The condition of the man is critical but stable. His colleague received a minor leg injury.
On the 3rd floor, where the spread of fire, firefighters found cannabis plants under special lighting.
A firefighter is lucky to be alive this morning after he fell 30 feet while battling a blaze at an alleged marijuana grow house in the Bronx. pic.twitter.com/PHzpCDsu6I
— CBS New York (@CBSNewYork) November 15, 2018
«The fire is lucky to be alive this morning after he fell off [the height of] 30 feet, fighting the flames in the greenhouse with hemp in the Bronx».
«It’s really horrible… can’t believe it,» said local resident Yesenia Fontanez even do not guess that the house was growing cannabis.
The cause of the fire and the owner of «marketablity» set.
It should be noted, in the Bronx this is not the first emergency that is associated with the cultivation of hemp. In 2016 clandestine drug lab exploded just at the moment when firefighters arrived on the call. The explosion killed a battalion chief FDNY veteran and father of 3 children, Michael Fahey. This year 2 men have pleaded guilty in the manslaughter of a firefighter.
Police found a giant marijuana bushes in a residential building
On Wednesday, the police of Yonkers, near new York suburbs, found a laboratory for production of narcotics. As it turned out, in one of the houses was raised by someone real hemp «forest» — more than a hundred marijuana plants.
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