Firefighters rescued a Queens woman from her burning apartment this morning, fire officials said.
The blaze erupted in the bedroom of the 64-year-old victim’s home on 88th Street in Lindenwood at 7:32 a.m.
“I was scared out of mind. I opened the door and very heavy black smoke came at me, choking me,” said third-floor resident Dorothy Nudell, 71, who fled down the fire escape.
I couldn’t see two inches in front of me.”
Firefighter James Goelz, 36, of Ladder 107, raced up to the smoke-filled apartment on the fourth floor, where he used his thermal imaging camera to find the unconscious victim right outside her bedroom door.
“I was instructed to go right and came across the victim,” Goelz said. “She was right outside of her bedroom.”
Fellow smokeater John Bunning then carried the victim outside and helped revive her.
“She looked like a ragdoll,” another neighbor said.
“The firefighters put her on the ground and pumped her heart. One said, ‘I have a pulse,’ and then they took her away.”
The victim is in serious but stable condition at Cornell Medical Center, officials said.
The fire was under control by 8:18 a.m.. The cause remains under investigation.