{"id":193612,"date":"2026-02-25T20:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193612\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:49:09","slug":"bystanders-save-woman-dangling-from-second-floor-window-to-escape-fire-lbfd-says-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193612\/","title":{"rendered":"Bystanders save woman dangling from second-floor window to escape fire, LBFD says \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men working near a Long Beach apartment this morning rescued a woman who was dangling from a second-floor window after she fled a fire that broke out at her apartment.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic scene unfolded shortly before 9:25 a.m. at a two-story apartment building on Atlantic Avenue near East 31st Street, which is just south of the 405 Freeway, said Long Beach Fire Department spokesman Brian Fisk.<\/p>\n<p>When firefighters arrived, they found a second-floor unit with \u201cheavy fire and smoke\u201d coming from it, Fisk said.<\/p>\n<p>A woman in her 30s told firefighters that she had broken a window to escape the apartment, but was dangling from the second floor when the two men spotted her and moved underneath to catch her, Fisk said.<\/p>\n<p>She escaped with a minor finger injury and refused treatment at the scene, Fisk said.<\/p>\n<p>The workers left the scene before units arrived, but the Fire Department is hoping to identify them \u201cfor a potential meritorious award,\u201d Fisk said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2-25-26-fire-7-181845-gnxuaxow-673610-k0r1ByiS-1024x690.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182028\"  \/>Long Beach firefighters leave a residence after extinguishing a fire in the 3100 block of Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach, on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters knocked down the flames and kept the blaze from spreading beyond the one apartment unit, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The American Red Cross was called to the scene to provide temporary lodging for three residents who were displaced by the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators were working to determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men working near a Long Beach apartment this morning rescued a woman who was dangling from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-193612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}