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It’s a nod to the era of horse-drawn engines, when crews would manually push equipment back into the firehouse.

Video footage shows a man, identified as Ashiq Hussein, 53, falling from a fire rescue ladder as he was trying to escape from a burning apartment building in Brooklyn, N.Y.

He lowered himself on to the fire escape to rescue them. I took a position where I could photograph what I thought was an impending routine rescue. The ladder went up to pick them up - they were about ...