An NYPD officer who was injured Sunday while responding to a high-rise fire in Brooklyn has died.
Dennis Guerra, 38, was pronounced dead shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday at the hospital where he had been in critical condition.
Guerra and fellow officer Rosa Rodriguez were the first to respond to the fire in a high-rise building on Surf Avenue in Coney Island just before 12:30 p.m. Sunday, but the pair barely made it out of the elevator. Firefighters pulled them out after they discovered the pair unconscious and unresponsive.
Police say 16-year-old Marcell Dockery intentionally set the fire in the Unity Towers, where he lived. Early this week the teen was charged with arson, assault and reckless endangerment in connection with the blaze.
Firefighters brought the fallen police officers to the main entrance, where EMS personnel treated them in front of the Coney Island housing development site #1B. Guerra was resuscitated in the field and brought to Coney Island Hospital before being airlifted to Jacobi Medical Center.
Police say Rodriguez was initially transported, conscious, to Lutheran Medical Center and was later moved to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
According to police, Guerra was married with four children, while Rodriguez has four children and lives with her mother.
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