VIDEO: Twelve killed in deadliest New York City fire in quarter century
Twelve killed in deadliest New York City fire in quarter century
By Eli Rosenberg December 29
Fire Department of New York personnel work on the scene of the Bronx apartment fire. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)
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A rapidly spreading blaze at an apartment building in New York killed 12 people, including four children, in what officials said is the deadliest fire in the city in decades. Officials said that the blaze was started by a three-year-old boy who was playing with a stove in a first floor apartment.
The fire broke out around 7 p.m. on a frigid winter night in the five-story building in the Bronx and moved quickly through the roughly 100-year-old structure in the Belmont neighborhood.
The dead included children ages one, two and seven, and a 19-year-old. Another child whose age was not yet known was among the victims, officials said. The bodies of victims were found on multiple floors.
“This is the worst fire tragedy we’ve seen in this city in at least a quarter century,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference near the scene on Thursday night.
“In a department that is certainly no stranger to tragedy, we’re shocked by this loss,” Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said.
Thierno Diallo, 59, a security guard who lives in a ground floor apartment in the building told the Associated Press that he was confused at first when he was woken up by banging on his door.
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