A 7-year-old boy miraculously survived after falling three stories from a residential building yesterday in East Harlem, Manhattan (NYC).
The incident occurred before 11 a.m. Friday at a 14-story building located on East 131st Street. The New York police said the minor He was playing on the 12th floor balcony when he fell and landed on an outdoor terrace three floors below..
As he screamed for help, A man saw him fall and came to rescue him. “What happened was that my stepbrother ended up seeing him fall and ran out to the terrace and grabbed him because he was hanging from the ledge. could have died… It was very intense, so when my stepbrother took him off the ledge, he brought him back and laid him down in the house,” he told ABC News witness Brianna McCall.
The boy taken by paramedics to Harlem Hospital for evaluation. The police said that It’s a miracle he didn’t suffer any fractures.
In September, a 7-year-old boy died after falling from the balcony of an apartment in Fort Lee, New Jersey. In July, a four-year-old child died after falling out of a window in his home on the 4th floor of a building in Brooklyn (NYC).
Also that month in Harlem, a 3-year-old girl was seriously hospitalized after falling from a 6th-floor window in her home and apparently her family took a while to realize it.
In another similar case, in June a 4-year-old girl miraculously survived after falling from a 3rd floor window in a residential building in Brooklyn (NYC).
These types of accidents happen more frequently as the temperature rises in the city and adults open the windows and balconies to cool the spaces. As a precaution, the authorities remember:
-Carefully check window protectors periodically. Lids or screens are not safe substitutes.
-Never place a bed, chair or other object that children can climb on in front of a window.
-Keep minors away from balconies and terraces if they are not being closely supervised by an adult, closing the doors to those areas.
-Never allow children to play near elevator shafts or on fire escapes, balconies, terraces or roofs. Nor should they be unsupervised in the hallways of buildings that have unattended windows.
-Call 311 to report unprotected hallway windows.
2024-02-24 18:50:00
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