WATCH: ABC News Special Report: At least 19 people are dead, including nine children, following a massive fire in New York City on Sunday, officials said.
More than 60 people were injured after a massive fire broke out at a duplex apartment in the Bronx, according to the New York City Fire Department.At least 19 people are dead, including nine children, following a massive fire in New York City on Sunday, officials said.
More than 200 firefighters responded to the scene of the five-alarm fire that originated Sunday morning in a duplex apartment on the third floor of a high-rise building located in the Tremont section of the Bronx, officials said. More than 60 people were injured in the fire, according to the New York City Fire Department.
Firefighters arrived on the scene within three minutes of the initial 911 call and were met with fire in the hallways, Nigro said. A door that was left open allowed the fire and smoke to spread, Nigro added, describing the fire as"unprecedented." "This is going to be one of the worst fires we have witnessed here in modern times in the city of New York," New York City Mayor Eric Adams told reporters Sunday.
Dramatic pictures posted to social media show fire gushing out of multiple windows in the building. FDNY began receiving calls from multiple residents on upper floors just before 11 a.m.Members of the FDNY work the scene of a 5-alarm fire in the Bronx, New York, Jan. 9, 2022.This was the second major fire in the Bronx over the weekend.
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