Brigantine Firefighter Pulls Woman From Blaze

Sunday, November 16 2008 @ 05:12 pm EST

Contributed by: CBrining

From the Atlantic City Press Published: Sunday, November 16, 2008

From Press staff reports

An off-duty firefighter pulled a woman suffering from smoke inhalation from the scene of a house fire Saturday morning in Brigantine, according to Lt. Joseph Maguire.

The Fire Department received a report of a house fire at about 10:39 a.m., Maguire said.

As units were responding, Capt. Alan Weidner was driving by the house on Roosevelt Boulevard. He stopped and entered the smoke-filled building, where he discovered and then removed a disoriented woman who had been trying to extinguish a kitchen fire.

The unidentified woman was transported by the Fire Department's Basic Life Support Unit to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus in Atlantic City, where she was treated for smoke inhalation.

The first engine crew on the scene at Roosevelt Boulevard had just responded to an earlier incident on West Shore Drive. The crew entered the one-story house and extinguished what remained of the fire, Maguire said. Crews also put out an additional fire in the clothes washer, where a rug had been placed in an attempt to extinguish the flames.

Damage was estimated at about $25,000, Maguire said. The fire is under investigation by Firefighter Joseph LaVigna.

Steven Lemongello