Three firefighters used a dangerous rescue technique — being lowered from the roof by rope — to save a man trapped in a burning Brooklyn building Sunday morning.
“Those guys, they got me out of the building,” said Ubeaka McKinney, 39, of the daring save on the third floor of 241 Rockaway Ave. in Brownsville at 7:30 a.m.
“I was hanging out of the window and they came down from the roof on a rope,” he added. McKinney made sure his 88-year-old grandmother, who lives with him in the apartment, got out. But he got stuck inside and began to yell for help. That’s when Firefighter Andrew Scharf, from Ladder Co. 176, was lowered from the roof by Firefighter Todd Brenner of Ladder 120.