A nine-year-old girl jumped from a third-floor balcony to escape a raging condo fire in Mahwah, New Jersey, according to a news report.
The Daily Voice reports that police officers thought they’d evacuated all of the residents from a the afternoon condominium fire when they spotted the girl on the balcony and encouraged her to jump to them. The girl then jumped down to the waiting officers.
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The fire broke out on the second floor just before 4:30 p.m. and quickly spread upward and out toward the exterior stairway, the report said.
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