'The further you proceeded into the house, the more smoke. It was pitch black, you couldn't see anything,' recalled Officer Kevin Long.
Monday, June 24, 2024 9:41PMEVESHAM TWP., New Jersey --police shows an officer saving a man's life from a burning apartment earlier this month.Officer Kevin Long was on duty at a nearby shopping center on Sunday, June 16, when a call came in for a smoke alarm with possible entrapment on Sagemore Drive ."I was like, 'You know what? I'll just go to it. I'm right there,'" he said.
Officer Long was quickly met with an apartment full of smoke and two people inside. He encountered the woman at the front door."Get out! Get out!" he tells her."The further you proceeded into the house, the more smoke. It was pitch black, you couldn't see anything," said Long. The couple, police say, is in their 70s. The husband relies on a wheelchair. He was not able to walk on his own, and his wife was not able to move him.He says it was nearly impossible to see or breathe, but he could hear the man yelling inside."Where you at?" yells Long in the video as he's trying to find the victim.Finally, the officer's flashlight shows the man sitting in a chair.He then went back in and pulled him out, and then Long collapsed on the ground.
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