BEDFORD, Va. — A video posted online Tuesday shows a first-person perspective of a firefighter’s mayday fall from the attic of a home to the basement.
The footage, shot from a helmet camera, recorded the firefighter from Bedford, Va., climbing down a ladder from the attic when the ladder broke, sending him plummeting 20 feet into the basement at a Feb. 10 working fire.
Fellow firefighters quickly assist the firefighter out of the structure as a mayday is called, treat him and transport him for non-life threatening injuries.
The house belonged to a firefighter from one of the fire companies responding.