Saturday, 28 April 2012

Monsey child found alone on lawn of burning home

  Eyewitness NewsMONSEY, New York (WABC) -- A four-year-old boy was found sitting alone just outside his burning home in Rockland County.

The fire broke out in a home on West Central Avenue in Monsey, Friday afternoon.

Good samaritan Saul Katz and a Spring Valley DPW worker went to the back. The young child was spotted and pulled to safety. The child was found by fire officials sitting on the lawn of the burning home. The fire chief said the boy was left alone by the father for just a few minutes.

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He was not hurt.

The home was destroyed.

It's not clear what started the blaze, but fire officials do say that it appears that the house was split up into four illegal apartments.

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