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Woman jumps from 2nd-floor balcony into officers’ arms to escape Wrentham blaze
The fire happened Monday on Lake Pearl.
A woman jumped from a second-floor balcony of a burning home in Wrentham into police officers’ arms on Monday, according to local police.
Officials received reports from 911 callers that a woman was coughing and screaming for help from the second floor of a Woolford Road home that was on fire.
Three Wrentham officers — Sgt. Jon Coliflores and Officers Mark Miscavage and Mike Flinn — arrived at the scene on Lake Pearl first and discovered the entire first floor was engulfed in flames, police said.
The officers located the woman on the second-floor balcony and instructed her to jump to them, knowing they could not access her from inside due to the severity of the fire.
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The woman then climbed over the balcony railing and fell into the officers’ arms. She was transported to a local hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries, police said.
The Wrentham Fire Department was able to contain and put out the fire, despite challenges from the heat wave and the house’s location on the edge of Lake Pearl, according to police.
One mutual aid firefighter was transported to a local hospital for dehydration, police reported.
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