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FDNY firefighters, EMS rescue teen impaled on fence

Firefighters used a bandsaw to cut parts of the wrought iron fence before handing the teen to EMS

By Kerry Burke, Elizabeth Keogh
New York Daily News

NEW YORK 鈥 A teenager horsing around with a friend in Queens was impaled when he stumbled into a wrought iron fence 鈥 and then freed by a quick-thinking group of New York鈥檚 bravest before being rushed to the hospital, likely saving his life.

鈥淭his is an example of what we do every day,鈥 said at a news conference after the frightening fall. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 only put out fires.鈥

The 15-year-old boy was heading home from school, and roughhousing with a friend on Himrod St. near Tonsor St. in Ridgewood when he stumbled into the fence, officials said at the news conference.

The teen鈥檚 friend fell on top of him, pushing the boy鈥檚 leg into a sharp spire of the fence. Members of the FDNY were called to the residential block and immediately began working to free the teen鈥檚 leg from the fence.

Firefighter Jason Shoemaker of FDNY Rescue 4 used a bandsaw to cut through three vertical bars and the horizontal top piece of the fence 鈥 preventing further injury by carefully keeping the sections intact to transport the boy and fence together to the hospital.

鈥淲e all worked together as a team [and] we passed him off to EMS,鈥 said Shoemaker. 鈥淚t鈥檚 all teamwork here.鈥

Medics rushed the teen to Bellevue Hospital, where he was in stable condition.

鈥淭he training, the dedication that goes on each and every day with this fire department and our specialized units, we were able to extricate this child from the fence and save his life,鈥 Sarrocco said. 鈥淚t just goes to a testament to what we do on a daily basis in the FDNY.鈥

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