The woman an off-duty firefighter pulled an from a burning home has died.
The Kansas City Fire Department was called to the 10600 block of North Marsh Avenue around 9:45 a.m. Wednesday.
Fire is under control at 10600 blk N. Marsh Avenue in #KCMO pic.twitter.com/dPyiH2JBon
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A neighbor told 41 Action News an off-duty firefighter knocked down the door and pulled a woman out of the burning house.
Jennifer Parks, a neighbor, tells me an off duty firefighter knocked down the door & pulled out an elderly woman pic.twitter.com/2c3ocuhHl2
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Kansas City, Mo., Fire Department firefighter Ryan Cummings pulled the woman from the home. He is a 14-year veteran with the department.
Off-duty Kansas City Missouri Fire Department (KCFD) firefighter Ryan Cummings from Station 25, Rescue 1 pulled out the unconscious woman from the burning house. His wife, a nurse at North Kansas City Hospital administered CPR.
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Cummings said he and his wife were driving past the house when he noticed something wasn't right. He said a neighbor told him a woman lived there with her daughter.
“Asked if the house was on fire and they said they didn’t know the doors were locked, I ran down to the house and grabbed a couple things to try and help open up the doors,” said Cummings.
When he was inside, he conducted a search of the home.
Cummings said there was thick smoke, and he found the woman unconscious in the kitchen. He was able to bring her out to the front yard with the help of another person.
“Grabbed a hold of her, she was unresponsive, slid her towards the front door and about that time there was another gentlemen that was there and he helped me finish getting her out the rest of the way down the stairs,” said Cummings.
Cummings said his wife, who is a nurse, performed CPR on the woman. The woman was then transported to a local hospital where she later died, officials said.
The cause of the fire has not been determined.
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