It was their first big call — and they saved two little lives.
Two rookie firefighters, one of them fighting the first blaze of his career, saved a mom and two small boys trapped in a burning Brooklyn basement apartment early Thursday, officials said.
Firefighters from Ladder Co. 149 rushed to the blaze on 64th St. near 11th Ave. in Sunset Park about 2:20 a.m. A mother and her two children — ages 6 and 2 — were trapped in a basement apartment, as their father and neighbors frantically tried to get inside to rescue them.
“I knew we had to get in there quickly,” said FDNY Capt. Christopher Kane. “When we got to the base of the stairs, the fire rolled over our heads.”