{"id":241109,"date":"2026-05-22T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241109\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:20:09","slug":"fdny-firefighter-honored-after-pulling-trapped-woman-from-submerged-car-during-storm-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241109\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY firefighter honored after pulling trapped woman from submerged car during storm in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"

QUEENS, New York (WABC) — A heroic, off-duty FDNY firefighter reunited with a local school principal he rescued after flash floods swamped parts of New York City on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Firefighter Travis Langan’s heroism was honored by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore at FDNY headquarters on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Langan was on the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens on Wednesday, when he spotted P.S. 81 Principal Carmen Pinto trapped in her car, which was almost completely submerged.<\/p>\n

He was able to pull her out of the car’s sunroof, a daring rescue that was captured in photos.<\/p>\n

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“I was trying to keep my head as close to the sunroof as possible because the water had come up that far, and then I saw Travis,” Pinto said.<\/p>\n

“I got a big enough hole, and she actually handed me this Yeti cup, and I just started wailing away with the Yeti cup, and I started ripping the glass,” Langan said.<\/p>\n

Pinto finally got the chance to meet face-to-face with her hero on Friday, this time under far calmer conditions.<\/p>\n

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