Actor Dylan Baker tried to rescue an elderly neighbour before escaping a high-rise apartment fire in Manhattan.
It happened on the 33rd floor of a building on West 43rd Street just before 4.30pm on Tuesday.
Baker, who has a recurring TV role in The Good Wife, told NBC New York he had just returned home when an alarm went off and he saw smoke coming from his neighbour’s apartment.
He says he pounded on her door and called her name before opening the door and seeing flames everywhere. He says he shut the door and called 911 before hurrying his family out of the building.
Firefighters quickly put out the fire. The woman was hospitalised in critical condition.
Baker has also appeared in Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3.
