A firefighter yesterday relived his desperate attempts to revive two brothers in arms who had jumped from the fourth floor of a burning Bronx apartment house.
“John, hang in there, I’ve got you!” Godfrey Blythe recalled saying to one victim during his testimony at the trial in the infamous “Black Sunday” fire.
Two tenants and a landlord are charged with contributing to the deaths of Firefighter John Bellew, 37 and Lt. Curtis Meyran, 46, in the inferno on Jan. 23, 2005.
Bellew and Meyran were among six firefighters who leaped from the building when their escape route was cut off by illegal partitions in several apartments.
Reaching Meyran first, Blythe rolled him over, opened his airway and checked for breathing.
“There was none,” he said.
Moving on to Bellew, he opened his airway and told him the EMS was on the way.
“We’re going to get you out of here,” Blythe told his dying comrade. But again, there was no response.