VIDEO: Some police officers did double duty as firefighters over the weekend.
According to New Rochelle police, Officer Timothy Childs spotted a house on fire on Franklin Avenue Saturday morning. Childs called it in and then started evacuating the six-unit building. He was joined by Officer Phalan Pedro and Lt. Robert Wenzler. Together they managed to evacuate the building and vented the first floor apartments.
“It just happened so fast. It started and then it went… straight to the top, and I’ve never seen that before,” said neighbor Mariyam Muhammad, who called for help while her boyfriend captured the chaos on his cell phone.
By happenstance, help was already there.
Officer Childs was doing routine patrol when he saw the smoke and ran in.