At least 19 people were killed in a fire in a New York apartment building on Sunday. As the fire brigade previously announced, 60 people were injured, 32 of them were life-threatening. Mayor Eric Adams said there were nine children among the dead. OSTONE ERIC ADAMS, MAYOR: “This is a moment of pain for us and for the men and women who live here, not just in the Bronx but in the entire city. It is one of the worst fires ever.” we’ve seen in New York City recently. ” According to the New York fire department chief Daniel Nigro, the cause of the fire was a defective electric heater. Because the door of the apartment that caught on fire was open, the smoke spread rapidly in the 19-story house, and many residents were smoke inhaled. 200 firefighters were on duty to rescue people from the building. A Democratic Congressman blamed the fire on decades of neglect of public housing. It is the second time within a week that a major fire has destroyed a residential building. Just last Wednesday a fire broke out in Philadelphia in which 12 people died, including eight children.
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