The two separate fires Sunday took place in the Williamsburg and Brownsville sections of Brooklyn.
, and thick plumes of smoke filled the sky, following a five-alarm fire Sunday that tore through nine separate stores and left 10 firefighters injured.
Over 200 firefighters responded with saws to cut through gates to try and get the ferocious flames under control. Nobody was seriously injured., leaving three young children clinging to life. "They found two of the children in the living room and one they found right behind the door. They were all unconscious."The mother was questioned and the father, identified as 37-year-old Anthony Halliburton, was placed under arrest.
Hodgens told reporters firefighters broke down a locked door to reach the trapped children within 12 minutes of the initial 911 call.
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