Video: New York fire rescue caught on camera Footage filmed in the New York district of Washington Heights shows a man dangling from the window of his apartment as he tries to escape the blaze in his home. People from the neighbouring apartments can be seen trying to use a ladder to reach the man. But realising that the ladder would not reach the window, they quickly decide to lay it between a fire escape and the window below the man. A neighbour climbs across and helps the man drop carefully onto the ladder and away from the billowing smoke.