A New York firefighter is still missing Tuesday after a massive fire that destroyed a nursing home building continues to burn, killing at least one person and injuring another, officials said.
More than eight hours later, the fire raged in Evergreen Court, a relief facility in Spring Valley, about 40 miles north of Manhattan.
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Two firefighters who fought to put out the flames underwent smoke inhalation and one was taken to a local hospital on a heart attack, according to FOX 5 New York. Firefighters said one of the 133 residents in the hospital was killed.
Twenty-three of the 27 volunteer firefighters in Rothland County, New York, responded to the scene, with more than 100 firefighters.
The missing firefighter is from the local Spring Valley fire department, officials said. He was apparently on the third floor trying to save residents when parts of the structure began to collapse, and he then sent an emergency call.
“The mayday was answered. With the extent of the fire, the volume of the fire, the conditions were just too unbearable where firefighters went in, they just could not locate the firefighter and returned,” Rockland County Fire and EMS said . Director Chris Kear told reporters on Tuesday.
A minigraph is brought in in an attempt to locate the missing firefighter.
It is known that Evergreen Court had a partial sprinkler, but the cause of the fire is still being investigated.
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Earlier reports indicated that people may have been trapped inside. Videos showed the first responders evacuated people from the building, videos showed. Some of the elderly were evacuated to another facility, witness Benny Polatseck tweeted.
Firefighters and emergency personnel continued to fight hell in the early hours of the morning
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Another eyewitness, Mark Kennedy, posted photos and videos of the fire on social media, which could be seen miles away
“The fire probably raged for about two hours, or maybe more, before the building caught up,” he told Insider.
Firefighters and emergency personnel continued to fight hell in the early hours of the morning, videos showed.
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New York City firefighters and a helicopter were also called in to fight the blaze. Belaaz report.