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Video: Pa. officer rescues man from third-floor ledge during apartment fire

The apartment building filled with smoke as the officer attempted to rescue a man stuck on the ledge

By Police1 Staff

LEMOYNE, Pa. — West Shore Regional Police Officer Christopher Conroy and Detective John Friel responded to a fire and found a resident of a home standing on a third floor ledge trying to avoid the rapidly spreading flames, ABC 27 reported.

Officers and a passerby saw a ladder, threw it onto a porch roof, then climbed up to rescue the man.

Firefighters responded after the rescue and extinguished the two-alarm blaze.

The cause of the fire was not immediately determined.