DETROIT (AP) - A firefighter has been injured after jumping about 40 feet to the ground from a ladder to escape a falling wall at a vacant, former Detroit car factory.
He was in stable condition Wednesday at a hospital.
Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Dougherty says the veteran firefighter was knocked out, but shortly regained consciousness and “knew who he was, and knew where he was.”
He and another firefighter were in a bucket spraying water onto the old Fisher Body plant a few miles north of downtown when part of a facade collapsed. The other firefighter remained on the ladder and was uninjured.
Fire crews were called to the building about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday and returned three hours later when the earlier fire rekindled.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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