A woman in her 30s dropped from a second-floor window to escape an apartment fire in Long Beach on Wednesday morning, landing in the arms of two workers who rushed in to catch her. The tense rescue unfolded shortly before 9:25 a.m. at a two-story building on the 3100 block of Atlantic Avenue near East 31st Street, just south of the 405 Freeway. She walked away with only a minor finger injury and declined medical treatment at the scene.
When Long Beach Fire Department crews pulled up, they found heavy fire and smoke pouring from the second-floor unit. Firefighters quickly knocked down the flames and kept the blaze from spreading beyond the single apartment. The American Red Cross was called in to arrange temporary lodging for three displaced residents, while…..