escape from burning building in downtown Easton<\/a> and he’s already thinking about when he can return back to duty.<\/p>\n“Bobby Lewullis is basically a big goofball,” said Wilson Borough Fire Chief Joseph Sipel. “He’s just normally a happy guy.”<\/p>\n
Lewullis returned home from the hospital Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Sipel said he’s in good spirits, thanks to an outpour of support from local first responders.<\/p>\n
“Bobby has no recollection of what actually happened,” said Sipel. “His injuries that they found were basically injuries consistent with falling 20 feet from the ladder.”<\/p>\n
Lewullis was searching for victims stuck inside of a flaming downtown Easton boarding home.<\/p>\n
“It was a very chaotic scene,” said Sipel.<\/p>\n
The several-story building caught fire and struck three-alarms, before it displaced dozens, ruined businesses and shook the city to its core.<\/p>\n
“Lewullis called a ‘mayday’, stated he was running out of air,” explained Sipel. “He had about 20% to 25% left of his air.”<\/p>\n
Sipel said Lewullis knew he had to get out.<\/p>\n
“He got to the third floor. Got disoriented. It was a very cut up building with a lot of doorways and hallways going to different spots,” said Sipel.<\/p>\n
Sipel explains that as Lewullis was climbing out of the window, \u201che just stepped off the ladder and fell straight down.\u201d<\/p>\n
A hard fall, nearly 20 feet down to the ground, but Lewullis was conscious and talking to first responders.<\/p>\n
“At the hospital, they did their normal test x-rays. He did have smoke inhalation, because he was in the building for approximately 10 minutes without any air,” said Sipel.<\/p>\n
Sipel checked in with Lewullis on the phone on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
“All the other departments, it’s been great. Everybody’s calling asking about him,” said Sipel.<\/p>\n
Amid his journey to full recovery, Lewullis has a message of his own.<\/p>\n
“He wanted to make sure everybody remembers the people that live there that were injured and lost their homes and continued with their prayers for them,” said Sipel.<\/p>\n
Lewullis is hoping to be back at the firehouse in four to six months with a smooth recovery.<\/p>\n
Easton Fire Chief Henry Hennings said the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILSON, Pa. – A Wilson Borough firefighter is home recovering after a close call. The longtime first responder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,57629,2347,2181,57630,57340,57628,40672,55244,43922,4554],"class_list":{"0":"post-122541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-bobby-lewullis","12":"tag-community-support","13":"tag-easton","14":"tag-fire-investigation","15":"tag-firefighter-injury","16":"tag-hotel-fire","17":"tag-recovery","18":"tag-rescue-operation","19":"tag-smoke-inhalation","20":"tag-wilson-borough"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}