An air conditioner electrical cord pinched between a bed frame and wall started the fire that killed Lt. Gordon Ambelas, according to the Fire Department of New York (FDNY).
Ambelas died after sustaining multiple injuries at a fire in a high-rise public-housing building in Brooklyn Saturday night. He was injured while performing a search in a burning apartment on the structure’s 19th floor, according to FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro.
Firefighter Dies After Fire at Brooklyn High-Rise
The wake for Lieutenant Ambelas will be held at Casey McCallum Rice Funeral Home, 30 Nelson Ave. in Staten Island. July 8, 2-4pm & 7-9pm; July 9, 2-4pm & 7-9pm.
It was the FDNY’s first firefighter line-of-duty death since Lt. Richard A. Nappi was killed in a Brooklyn warehouse fire in April 2012.
