How fire heroes saved tots
Published: February 13, 2007
A little girl’s smile was all the reward a group of modest FDNY heroes needed after saving 2-year-old twins from a burning Harlem building, they said yesterday.
After learning the kids were trapped inside the apartment building at 116th Street and Lenox Avenue on Sunday afternoon, the Bravest swung into action.
Lt. Mickey Conboy and firefighter Jimmy DiSciullo, of Squad 41, wearing masks and crawling on their hands and knees, felt their way through the heavy smoke.
They broke down a door, plucked the tots from a crib, and took them to a fire escape, where they handed them off to Dan Shaffer and George Baade of Ladder 14 in a cherry picker outside.
The toddlers noticed everyone on the street was watching, and “they started to wave,” Shaffer said. “And the girl smiled. That’s when you get to say, ‘That’s what you’re there for.’ ”
Shrugging off any suggestions that they’re heroes, Conboy said, “It’s always a team effort.”
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