A Bronx community gathers Sunday to pay its final respects to perished loved ones, a week after a fire filled an apartment building with thick, suffocating smoke that killed 17 people, including eight children.
A memorial for the victims of an apartment building fire is displayed in front of the building in the Bronx borough of New York, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Many of the victims of New York City’s deadliest fire in years are still awaiting burial after funerals began with services for two children killed by Sunday’s blaze in a Bronx apartment building.
The dead ranged in age from 2 to 50. Entire families were killed, including a family of five. Others would leave behind orphaned children. The funeral was held at the Islamic Cultural Center, 2 miles from the 19-story apartment building where New York City’s deadliest fire in three decades unfolded. Some residents said space heaters were sometimes needed to supplement the building’s heat and that repairs weren’t always timely.
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