Child playing with stove started deadliest New York City fire in quarter century, officials say
Source: The Washington Post
By Eli Rosenberg December 29 at 11:15 AM
A three-year-old boy playing with a stove started a blaze that tore through an apartment building in New York, killing 12 people in what officials said is the deadliest fire in the city in decades.
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.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/12/29/twelve-killed-in-deadliest-new-york-city-fire-in-quarter-century
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