'Spider-Man' To The Rescue

A New York City man scaled a burning home in the Bronx to help rescue three people, including a toddler. New York's tabloid newspapers have dubbed Freddy Alamo "Spider-man."

Tragically, Alamo could not reach a teen who died in the blaze.

The Daily News reported that Alamo, 39, was awakened by noises from a burning house across the street from his home about 3 a.m. on Sunday. Alamo found the stairway blocked by flames, and used ledges and window bars to scale the two-story brick home.

"I'm a good climber. I climb like a monkey," he told the newspaper.

After awakening residents who lived on the first floor, Alamo climbed to the second floor, where he found a couple, Christopher Rodriguez and Jeanette Cruz, and their 2-year-old son in a smoke-filled apartment. He calmed the couple and stayed with them until firefighters arrived on the scene.

Alamo handed the toddler to firefighters who had hoisted a ladder and then helped the couple to safety, the New York Post reported.

"If he wasn't there, I don't think I would have actually come down. Because of the flames I was freaking out," Jeanette Cruz told the Daily News.

Unfortunately, Alamo was unable to reach 17-year-old Steven Santos, who was killed in the blaze.

It took 60 firefighters about an hour to extinguish the blaze.