LI Police Officers Carry Semi-Conscious Woman From Burning Home

BAY SHORE, NY — A semi-conscious woman was rescued from a house fire in Bay Shore by four police officers early Monday morning, Suffolk police said.

Officers Ronald Racioppi, Christopher Grenia, Richard Meyer, and Thomas Komoroski responded to a report of a fire at a home on Udall Road just before 1 a.m., police said, adding that when they arrived at the scene, “a resident of the home who had escaped the fire told the officers there was still a woman trapped inside.”

The officers broke down the front door of the home, and one of the officers was "repelled" by heavy smoke, so he went outside, and started looking through windows, and saw a woman inside of a back bedroom, police said. He ran back into the house, and “yelled to the others,” police said, adding that “together, they found the semi-conscious woman and carried her to safety.”

The 26-year-old woman was treated at the scene and released, police said.

Racioppi, Grenia, Meyer, and Komoroski were transported to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore for treatment of smoke inhalation, according to police.