4 Nassau officers rescue woman in Roosevelt blaze

Nassau County cops Saturday burst into a Roosevelt house in flames and rescued an unconscious woman lying on the kitchen floor, police said.

The 64-year-old found in the single-family house at 15 Bainbridge St. was treated with oxygen and survived, police said. The Roosevelt Fire Department put out the apparent stove fire, which was not deemed suspicious, a police spokeswoman said last night.

The fire happened at about 3:25 p.m., when a neighbor told police officers responding to an emergency call there that someone was inside.

"After making a forced entry through the front door, the officers were confronted with heavy, black smoke with little or no visibility," police said in a statement.

The rescued woman was brought to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow in stable condition, but none of the four officers involved in the rescue were injured, police said.

By MATTHEW CHAYES
Posted Sunday, November 8, 2009

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