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FIREMAN’S
FATAL FALL Canarsie boy
suffers deadly
allergic reaction
to fi sh fumes
Bravest plunges
to death from
M’Basin Bridge
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
A fi refi ghter plunged to his
death on Jan. 6 while trying to
save the victims of a car crash
on the Belt Parkway’s new Mill
Basin Bridge.
New York’s Bravest Steven
Pollard — who served as a probationary
fi refi ghter with Canarsie’s
Ladder Company 170
— took his fatal fall just after
10 pm, when his crew rushed
to the scene of the two-car collision
on the span near Floyd
Bennett Field, according to
the Fire Department.
Pollard, a 30-year-old Marine
Parker, plummeted 52 feet
after slipping through a threefoot
gap in the bridge, which
he tried to cross from its Bay
Ridge–bound side in order to
help two men injured in the
crash on the span’s Queensbound
side.
Following his fall, paramedics
rushed the fi refi ghter
to Kings County Hospital,
where doctors pronounced
him dead.
And on Monday, Mayor
DeBlasio and Fire Commissioner
Daniel Nigro mourned
the young hero, whose death
they called e GONE TOO SOON: Firefi ghter Steven Pollard, 30, plummeted to his death trying to save victims of a car col- specially tragic
lision on the Mill Basin Bridge on the night of Jan. 6. FDNY Continued on page 12
TRAGIC: A Canarsie boy died after
suffering an allergic reaction to
the smell of cooked fi sh.
Associated Press / Andreas Fuhrmann
Last meal
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
An 11-year-old Canarsie boy
died from an allergic reaction
to the smell of cooked fi sh on
New Year’s Day.
Camron Jean-Pierre died
around 7:30 pm on Jan. 1, after
inhaling fumes from the
seafood his family cooked inside
its E. 82nd Street home between
Flatlands Avenue and
Avenue J, according to a lawenforcement
source.
Cops with the 69th Precinct
found Jean-Pierre unconscious
and unresponsive when
they arrived at the scene, the
source said, and paramedics
rushed the boy to Brookdale
Hospital, where doctors pronounced
him dead.
Jean-Pierre’s father allegedly
tried to save his son before
he fell unconscious, by
hooking him up to a machine
that cops could not immediately
identify, according to the
source.
The medical examiner,
however, has yet to determine
Jean-Pierre’s cause of death,
according to a spokeswoman.
But a Police Department
spokesman said the incident
did not appear to be criminal
following authorities’ preliminary
investigation.
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