Who was Ashiq Hussain? Pakistani Uber driver dies after falling from firefighter’s ladder in Brooklyn

The early morning hearth broke out within the constructing housing Hussain’s condominium, situated above the M9 Deli and Grill in Brooklyn. 

Hussain had simply returned residence from an evening shift when he seen the hearth and alerted his two roommates, who had been capable of get out safely.

Seeing thick smoke stuffed his top-floor unit, Hussain and one other particular person tried to climb down a ladder deployed by the FDNY. However, the ladder’s higher part buckled and Hussain fell from the highest of the ladder to the sidewalk under.

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“He was attempting to breathe from the surface as a result of inside there was lots of smoke,” his cousin, Mazhar Iqbal, informed the Each day Information, who had spoken with Hussain moments earlier than the autumn. 

“I informed him: ‘Watch out, quickly the firemen are going to come back and you may dangle up the telephone.’ I informed him: ‘Watch out whenever you’re going out to the ladder,’ as a result of he’s older and he was chubby.”

FDNY pulls ladder from service after Hussain’s deadly fall

Emergency crews rapidly rushed to his facet, however Hussain succumbed to his accidents. The medical expert dominated the reason for dying as blunt-force trauma. The FDNY has launched an inside investigation and eliminated the ladder from service.

“They did actually mistaken. They took the top of the household,” Iqbal informed the New York Each day Information. “They ruined the household’s life.”

Sadly, after years of exhausting work, Hussain had lastly saved sufficient to convey his spouse and kids to the U.S. “He truly got here in not too long ago and informed us he was so pleased his household was lastly coming,” stated the proprietor of M9 Deli, who knew him effectively. “He was a really good, respectful particular person… It’s tragic. Tragic.”

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Hussain had began searching for an condominium that would match his household once they arrived. Now his household is working to get his physique to Pakistan so he could be put to relaxation there.