A man is clinging to life tonight after a house fire in Brooklyn. NY1′s Lori Chung filed the following report.
Alex Mayer says he could hardly believe his eyes when he saw a man run past his camera shop on fire and screaming for help.
“I was yelling ‘Drop, drop, roll!’” Mayer says. “He was completely engulfed in flames. He was really burning. It was very scary. It actually looked like a stunt or something.”
It happened after a small explosion at 910 McDonald Avenue in Kensington Tuesday afternoon. Sources say the victim was using chemicals when something caused them to ignite. He ran outside for help and finally fell in the street.
“All his clothes was burned. I saw him boots and gloves. That’s all that was left,” says another witness.
Those who ran out to help did what they could to put out the flames and stayed with the victim until the ambulance arrived.
“People gathering around him and tried to keep him conscious, talking to him,” a third witness says.
“I kept yelling, ‘Keep on breathing! Keep on breathing! Don’t give up!’ until the ambulance came. They came minutes later,” Mayer says.
While emergency crews worked to survey the damage, neighbors along the mostly commercial strip tried to come to grips with what happened.
“Something I don’t—I don’t ever want to see again,” says Mayer.
“Very disturbing…We just hope that nobody else got hurt and that this kid will be fine,” says one witness.
The victim was rushed to Maimonides with critical injuries. The cause is still under investigation.
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