Man jumps from 3rd-story window in Indy apartment fire

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — An Indianapolis antheral jumped from his third-story model aft a near-northeast broadside flat gathering burst into flames Tuesday morning.

The unnamed 68-year-old Newbridge Apartments nonmigratory made the leap conscionable earlier 11:30 a.m. aft a grease occurrence connected his stove got retired of control, the Indianapolis Fire Department said.

An off-duty firefighter was successful the country of the flat complex, located adjacent the intersection of East 25th Street and Hillside Avenue. According to IFD, aft seeing the antheral jump, the firefighter reported the incidental and tended to the injured antheral until archetypal responders arrived.

Authorities accidental the antheral sustained a flimsy wounded to his limb and was transported to IU Health Methodist Hospital.

Ten units successful the gathering were affected — either by water, smoke, h2o oregon structural harm — and six occupants were displaced.

One firefighter sustained a flimsy wounded to the shoulder, and different suffered flimsy heat-related injuries. Both were transported to section hospitals for treatment.

While en way to the flat fire, the IFD displacement commandant was struck by different conveyance astir 2 blocks from the fire.

According to witnesses, the pistillate driving a made a crisp near turn, crossing into the way of the exigency vehicle. The 2 cars collided, pushing the occurrence conveyance crossed a lane of oncoming postulation and into the grass.

The pistillate was trapped successful her conveyance and had to beryllium extracted by IFD.

Both the pistillate and the displacement commandant sustained flimsy injuries and were transported to Methodist Hospital, IFD says.