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The fireman who was captured in a remarkable front-page Post photo rescuing a baby from Sunday’s deadly Bronx fire recalled Monday clinging to his ladder as the infant’s mom handed him her child.

Bravest Matt Zimpfer, 45, insisted to The Post that he’s not a hero — and that the harrowing moment was just part of the job.

Zimpfer said his truck was the fourth brought in to fight the six-alarm blaze on East 181st Street that ended up killing 17 people, including eight kids. He said that as soon as he arrived, he leapt into action. 

“There was a male on the third floor sitting on the window sill. He had taken the window glass out himself and was sitting there dangling his legs outside the window,” Zimpfer, who is with the Engine 46, Ladder 27 company, told The Post by phone.

“There were three adults and the baby.”

Zimpfer and his crew lifted an aerial ladder up to the window, and as the 19-year veteran clung to the rungs, the baby’s mother handed him the child as the rest of the adults climbed down to safety. 

“They basically crawled underneath me as I stood on the rails of the ladder, and then the mother handed me the baby,” Zimpfer recalled. 

“The mom was behind me. She said, ‘Thank you.’”

An ace Post photographer captured Zimpfer clutching the child under one of his arms as the baby, wrapped in a blue blanket, cried. 

“The baby, although coming from a moderate to severe smoke condition, [he] was awake. … [He] appeared to be doing well at the time,” the smoke-eater said.  

Zimpfer said he brought the baby down the ladder and wasn’t sure what happened to him next. But two residents who know the family told The Post that the child was reunited with his mother, who is from Gambia, and that the pair are doing well. 

As soon as Zimpfer was able to hand off the baby to another firefighter, he then threw on his coat and headed back up the ladder — because the child’s mother told him her uncle was still inside. 

“Once we got the five victims down to the ground, we went back in and did a search for the uncle, who was not there,” Zimpfer said. 

“It was probably a moderate to heavy smoke condition on the fire floor. We tried to go out in the hallway, but it was untenable.” 

It wasn’t clear what happened to the uncle.

Zimpfer said that fighting through the smoke was the biggest challenge, but he insisted it was a team effort.  

“We all work together to accomplish one job. I was outside in view of the public, but there’s a lot of guys inside just under horrific conditions trying to get water on a fire,” the Orange County resident said. 

“Everybody’s kind of working together. It went up to six alarms, so you’ve got like 200 guys all working together to accomplish one goal, and our goal is to preserve life and property. It’s sad, the ones we lost, but overall, we got a few people out as well,” he said.

Additional reporting by Elizabeth Rosner