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.
Adams called the fire’s toll “horrific.” At a news conference Sunday near the building, he said: “This is going to be one of the worst fires that we have witnessed during modern times.”
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