Video Shows Dramatic Rescue of Residents from MO House Fire

According to a report from FOX2, police and fire responders from St. Louis, Missouri, rescued five people—two adults and three children—from a burning home on Kensington Avenue in St. Louis on Tuesday by creating a “human ladder.”

One police officer suffered smoke inhalation but is expected to recover.  

Photographer David Parks was working nearby when he filmed the rescue taking place at the rear of the home. St. Louis firefighters raised a ladder to rescue two children and Daleza Leonard as well as Ebony Clayborn and her nine-year-old daughter.   

The cause of the fire is under investigation.   

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