Police: Off-Duty FDNY Firefighter Helps Save Man Who Crashed Car in Holbrook After Being Stabbed, Bohemia Man Arrested

SCPD Photo: Frank Redd was arrested on Monday.

A Middle Island man was pulled from a burning car after it crashed in Holbrook by an off-duty FDNY firefighter and the firefighter’s brother soon after the man had been stabbed during a fight on Saturday night, police said.

A Bohemia man was arrested on Monday and charged in the stabbing, police said.

According to police, Brian Harris, 39, was sitting in his 2012 Kia sedan on Knickerbocker Avenue in Holbrook when he became involved in an altercation with Frank Redd on Saturday at about 8:25 p.m. Redd, 32, stabbed Harris several times in the head, chest and arm, police said.

Harris fled the location in his Kia, police said. A short time later, Harris struck a guard rail and sign post on Veterans Memorial Highway, west of Broadway Avenue, in Holbrook, police said.

The vehicle overturned and caught fire. Two passing motorists, the firefighter and his brother, stopped at the crash scene and rescued Harris from the burning sedan by breaking the vehicle’s sunroof and pulling him out to safety, police said.

Harris was transported to Stony Brook University Medical Center by the Holbrook Fire Department where he was listed in serious condition with several stab wounds and leg and chest injuries, police said.

Redd is charged with first degree assault. He will be held overnight at the Fifth Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court Central Islip on Tuesday.

Harris’s vehicle was impounded for a safety check and the investigation is continuing, police said.

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