Miller said he had worked with Sosa before, and that familiarity allowed them to spring into action quickly. I made sure not to move to ensure he was able to make the rescue,” We train for this all the time, so I felt comfortable. 'I attached the rope to his harness, but I couldn’t find a place to secure the other side, so I laid down on the roof, braced myself with a heavy pipe, and held him on the rope as he made his way to the child. 'Firefighter Abraham Miller, Ladder 23, and I heard screaming, and we saw a kid’s little hands out of one of the windows,' Ladder 34 firefighter Jairo Sosa said in an online post by the department. When crews arrived at the scene, they found flames shooting through windows, and screaming could be heard from the upper floors. on the fifth floor of a six-story building in the Washington Heights neighborhood, WABC-TV reports.

The fire broke out shortly after 4:30 a.m. FDNY firefighters performed a daring rope rescue from the roof of a six-story Manhattan building to save a 5-year-old girl trapped in a two-alarm blaze early Tuesday.

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