NEW YORK — At least 19 people, including nine children, died in a fire Sunday at a Bronx apartment building in New York City’s deadliest blaze in more than...
Firefighters work at the scene of a fatal fire at an apartment building in the Bronx on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, in New York. The majority of victims were suffering from severe smoke inhalation, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. NEW YORK — At least 19 people, including nine children, died in a fire Sunday at a Bronx apartment building in New York City’s deadliest blaze in more than three decades.
Adams called the fire’s toll “horrific” and said “this is going to be one of the worst fires that we have witnessed during modern times.” News photographers captured images of firefighters entering the upper floors of the burning building on a ladder, multiple limp children being given oxygen after they were carried out and evacuees with faces covered in soot.
Sunday’s fire originated in a duplex apartment spanning the second and third floors, Nigro said. Firefighters found the door to the apartment open, he said, which apparently allowed the fire to quickly accelerate and spread smoke upward.Building resident Cristal Diaz, 27, told the New York Post she started putting wet towels at the bottom of her door after smelling smoke while drinking coffee in her living room.
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