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Neighbors Catch Man Leaping From Burning Apartment

09/27/2012 23:48:00 By Peter Milosheff, viewed 556 times.
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Seventy-two-year-old Ronnie Poe is nursing a bruised heel, but his heart is full of praise and appreciation for longtime neighbors who stood underneath his Bronx apartment Thursday afternoon and caught him when he jumped to escape flames engulfing his kitchen.

The chaos started when he was cooking and a fire erupted.

Trapped in his bedroom, Poe went for the only available exit - the window.

Alaam Thomas was amongst the group that scrambled to rescue their neighbor, urging him to grab onto a cable wire and channel his former training in the military.

Poe, a firefighter and a third person were treated at the scene for minor injuries.

 

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Peter Milosheff

acquired Bronx.com in March, 2005 and manages the sites content and operations. Prior to acquiring Bronx.com Mr. Milosheff worked in the area of corporate finance for Christie's New York, Prada, Pfizer, Deutsche Bank and Fortis Bank. At Moody's Investors Service and Deutsche Bank he worked in the areas of structured products revenue accounting and asset management, respectively. At Fortis Bank he worked in the area of structured credit origination and trading. Peter began his career at age 17 in Sofia, Bulgaria, EU, where he established his private educational advising agency Endeavour, providing service to Bulgarian students interested in continuing their education abroad, and especially in the US. While managing most aspects of Bronx.com's operation and delegating others, he continues his career at a Wall Street financial services company (a major European bank) in the area of flow credit derivatives trading. Mr. Milosheff received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania in the Spring of 2002. He graduated Cum Laude with a major in Finance.