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by ROBERT GAVIN
Two Staten Island firefighters pulled a man out of a blazing apartment in Grymes Hill yesterday morning.
The man lay on the floor, behind a locked bedroom door on the first floor of two-story building at 82 Arlo Road, when Lt. Phil Solimeo and Firefighter John Hourican saved him around 6 a.m., firefighters said.
Solimeo and Hourican -- both of the Island's elite Rescue 5 unit in Concord -- knocked down the door down using fire tools and dragged the man out of the rear bedroom, through the front door and to safety.
Neither had a water line at the time and the fire was "roaring," but Solimeo and Hourican, 39, of Eltingville, both went into the room anyway, officials said.
"When people are telling you that someone's still in the building, you got to make that move," Solimeo, 32, of Great Kills, told the Advance in a phone interview.
Flames were "blowing out the window" when the firefighters arrived in response to a phone alarm, he explained.
The man was semi-conscious after his rescue. He was not identified.
Solimeo's no stranger to rescues. On Nov. 26, he helped pull three passengers from a mangled car that had been struck in a head-on collision on Hylan Blvd. in Dongan Hills.
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