At Least 19 Dead In 5-Alarm Fire In The Bronx
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At least 19 people, including nine children, were killed in a five-alarm fire that broke out Sunday in a high-rise apartment building in the Bronx, the mayor’s office said.
The fire began shortly before 11 a.m. at 333 East 181st Street in the Tremont section of the Bronx, on the third floor of a 19-story building. Roughly 200 firefighters reported to the scene where they found victims “on every floor, in stairways,” undergoing cardiac and respiratory arrest, according to Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro, who said this was “unprecedented in our city.”
“Numerous fatalities” are expected, he said, and as many as 66 people were reported injured in the fire, which city officials called one of the most devastating in New York City’s history.
Video posted on Twitter showed smoke billowing out from several windows.
Nigro spoke to reporters at the scene during a brief press conference just after 1 p.m. with Mayor Eric Adams, who received a briefing from the commissioner.
”This is going to be one of the worst fires we have witnessed here in modern times in the city of New York,” Adams told reporters.
Nigro said the last time the city had seen this kind of devastation was in 1990, at a social club in the Bronx called Happy Land, where 87 people died following an act of arson.
The cause of the fire is still unknown, but Nigro said fire officials determined that the door to the apartment that caught on fire was left open, further enabling the fire to spread.
Adams said the city was planning to open up a school for survivors of the fire to wait as the Red Cross arrives.
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