BROOKLYN — A woman was critically injured when she jumped from the third floor window of a burning Bedford-Stuyvesant building to a scaffold Monday afternoon, an FDNY spokesman said.
The woman, whose identity was not immediately released, was inside the Roosevelt Houses 128 Lewis Ave., near DeKalb Avenue, when a fire broke out in a hallway of the building about 12:15 p.m., FDNY officials said.
"It was dark gray and black. It flew up, all the way up to the 12th floor. There was mad smoke," said 12th-floor tenant George Miller, 21.
"It was scary," Miller added.
The woman leaped from the third floor and landed on first-floor scaffolding, witnesses said.
"A lot of firefighters were trying to help her out. Her left leg was hurt. She was laid out on the stretcher. She was crying," said Anthony Morazan, 21.
"She was on top of a ladder being transferred down. They were trying to move her quickly but they had to be really careful," said Morazan, who watched the scene unfold from his fifth-floor apartment.
She was taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition, fire officials said.
Three firefighters were treated at the scene for minor injuries, officials said.
About 60 firefighters brought the blaze under control about 1 p.m., an FDNY spokesman said.
It was not immediately clear what sparked the fire.
