19 Killed in New York City’s Deadliest Fire in Decades
The New York Times
Nine children were among those who died when a space heater malfunctioned in a Bronx apartment building, city officials said.
Nineteen people, including nine children, were killed on Sunday when an apartment fire started by a malfunctioning space heater sent smoke billowing through a Bronx high-rise, officials said, in the deadliest fire New York City had seen in more than three decades.
An additional 44 people were injured, 13 of them critically, after the occupants of the third-floor apartment where the fire started fled without closing the door behind them, the fire commissioner, Daniel A. Nigro, said at a news conference at the scene.
“Smoke spread throughout the building, thus the tremendous loss of life and other people fighting for their lives,” he said.
