An off-duty NYPD lieutenant turned a quiet Bloomingdale block into a rescue scene last Tuesday, ripping down a backyard fence and yanking out a window with his bare hands to get to a mother and her two young daughters trapped in a house fire on Rensselaer Avenue. Video of the blaze shows the officer carrying the children through the shattered window before uniformed firefighters completed the rescue. The girls, ages 5 and 11, and their mother were reported safe, and other relatives in the home, including a grandmother and an adult son, were unharmed. The family is now juggling repairs and recovery with the recent loss of their patriarch, along with the painful task of recovering his ashes from the fire-damaged home.
How the rescue unfolded
“The front…..