Scary video of Teenage siblings escaping burning apartment by sliding down a pipe

Viral, Dec 19: A shocking video shows that two teenagers escaping their burning apartment in a 14-story New York City building by sliding down a pipe.

The video shared online shows smoke billowing out of the fourth-floor window of the Jacob Riis Houses in the East Village as two siblings made a desperate attempt to save their lives.

The clip shows an 18-year-old girl in all black climbing out of a shattered window before dangling from a window sill.

She managed to grab hold of a narrow yellow pipe attached to the building. As people watched in horror from the ground, the teenager’s 13-year-old brother was next to emerge from the smoke-engulfed window. He is seen swinging his legs to reach the pipe before his sister pulls him to his side.

The clip goes on to show the siblings sliding down the pipe as flames shot out of their apartment window.