#Foto de fire series#

'he fire escape at the fifth floor collapsed as a turntable ladder was extending to pick up the two at the height of approximately 50 feet (15 meters).' To be honest, I feel that the ladder came down on the hand railing and accidentally cause this accident. The photo's are all taken within a couple of second by the same camera.so location and angles didn't chnage. They say the woman broke the child’s fall. He hoisted himself back up the fire escape to safety. When I did turn around I didn’t see them but I saw the firefighter still clinging onto the ladder with one arm, like a monkey, with all his gear. It transpired that I wouldn’t have seen them hit the ground as they fell behind a fence where the bins were. I can still remember turning around and shaking. It dawned on me what was happening and I didn’t want to see them hit the ground. I was shooting pictures as they were falling – then I turned away. O’Neil was reaching out for the ladder when suddenly the fire escape gave way. O’Neill had just told Diana Bryant that he was going to step onto the ladder and asked her to hand the baby to him. The ladder went up to pick them up – they were about 50ft (15m) up. I took a position where I could photograph what I thought was an impending routine rescue. He lowered himself onto the fire escape to rescue them. In the meantime, a firefighter called Bob O’Neil had climbed onto the front of the building on the roof and saw the pair on the fire escape.

I ran to the back of the building and when I looked up there was a woman and a child on the fire escape and they were basically leaning at the furthest point from the building because of the heat of the fire behind them. I ran to the back of the building because on the way there they kept yelling for a ladder truck because there were people trapped in the building on the fire escape. I rushed to the house and followed one of the engines to the fire. A call came in about a fire in one of the city’s older sections of Victorian row houses. I was about to leave the offices of the Boston Herald for the day. “Fire Escape Collapse” pictures were taken by photographer Stanley Forman. Jones survived the fall as she had landed on Bryant’s body, softening the impact.

#Foto de fire series#

Other photos of the series show Bryant and Jones waiting for a turntable ladder and the moment of fire escape’s collapse with both victims on it.īryant sustained multiple head and body injuries and died hours later. The photo was taken with a motorized camera and also shows falling potted plants. The fire escape on the fifth floor collapsed as a turntable ladder on a fire engine was being extended to pick up the two at the height of approximately 50 feet (15 meters). The photograph, which is part of a series, shows 19-year-old Diana Bryant and her 2-year-old goddaughter Tiare Jones falling from the collapsed fire escape of a burning apartment building on Marlborough Street in Boston on July 22, 1975. It’s tragic, going from the hope of immediate rescue to a deadly fall in seconds. The woman was killed but the child survived, her fall cushioned by the woman’s body. As the firefighter climbed onto the rescue ladder, the fire escape collapsed under their feet and they fell to the ground five floors below. The two waited with firefighter Robert O’Neil for a rescue ladder to reach them. Fire Escape Collapse, also known as Fire on Marlborough Street, is a black-and-white photograph by Stanley Forman which received the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1976.Ī nineteen-year-old and her two-year-old niece and goddaughter are hurled off a collapsing fire escape during an apartment fire on Marlborough Street.