Man, 73, dies in Downtown apartment building fire
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Paramedics perform CPR on a man who was found inside the Roosevelt Arms building on Penn Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh after a fire broke out on the 9th floor of the building. -
Firefighters respond to a fire on the ninth floor of the Roosevelt Arms building on Penn Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh. -
Firefighters respond to a fire on the ninth floor of the Roosevelt Arms building on Penn Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh.
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A 73-year-old man died following a blaze at a Downtown high-rise apartment building this evening.
Firefighters found Richard Snyder unconscious on the floor of his apartment on the ninth floor of the Roosevelt Arms Apartments near Sixth Street and Penn Avenue. They began doing chest compressions and took him to UPMC Mercy, where he was pronounced dead.
One other person was also taken to a hospital, but investigators said they expected her to be fine.
Pittsburgh fire Chief Darryl Jones said the department received a call for a fire at the complex at 4:21 p.m. and arrived about two minutes later.
They began a plan for responding to high-rise apartments, meaning they classify it as a three-alarm fire.
Keeping with normal protocol, city homicide detectives were called to the scene, Chief Jones said.
The chief said there was some smoke damage to the building but residents were being allowed back in the building sometime after 6 p.m.
First Published February 2, 2012 5:13 pm
