Video: Officer helps man escape Kalamazoo apartment fire from second-floor window

KALAMAZOO, Mich. – Police body camera footage captured the chaotic moments when an officer helped someone escape a deadly fire in Kalamazoo.

According to authorities, emergency crews were dispatched to an apartment complex just before 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 12, on reports of heavy smoke and alarms sounding.

Bodycam footage captured a Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety sergeant arriving at the scene and quickly jumping into action to help a man climb from a second-floor window. The sergeant was able to help the man get safely to the ground.

Police body cam footage of the rescue can be watched in the video player above.

The fire was extinguished at about 8 p.m.

The body of a 79-year-old woman was recovered from the building.