Neighbors sprung into action Monday afternoon to help their neighbors escaped an apartment fire in Marble Hill.
Ten people, including six firefighters, were injured. All are expected to be OK, CBS reported.
Firefighters arrived within three minutes. However, residents didn't wait. A woman said she ran through flames to help a man and his baby climb down the fire escape.
"I saw the fire in the middle and I kept running in the back, and I helped a man bring his kid and his family down the stairs. It was maybe four or five people in the back, a lady in the front. I don't know how the fire started, but I do know that it came so quickly," she told reporters.
As dark smoke billowed in the area, the closest subway station shut down. Trains didn't stop.
The fire started under the stairway on the first floor and rapidly spread up the stairs to every floor, trapping people in their apartments, an FDNY officer told the media.
