19 Killed, Including 9 Children, in Fire at New York City Apartment Caused by Space Heater
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Daniel Nigro
Eric Adams
Stefan Ringel
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Sandra Clayton
out!”Clayton
Luis Rosa
Vernessa Cunningham
Ritchie Torres
Michael R. Sisak
Jennifer Peltz
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East 181st Street
the Twin Parks North West complex
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Webster Avenue
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The door to the apartment and a door to a stairwell were left open, letting smoke quickly spread throughout the building, Nigro said.Building resident Sandra Clayton said she ran for her life when she saw the hallway filling with black smoke and heard people screaming, “Get out! It was also the deadliest fire at a U.S. residential apartment building since 2017 when 13 people died in an apartment building, also in the Bronx, according to data from the National Fire Protection Association.That fire started with a 3-year-old boy playing with stove burners and led to several law changes in New York City, including having the fire department to create a plan for educating children and parents on fire safety and requiring certain residential buildings to install self-closing doors.Sunday’s fire happened just days after 12 people, including eight children, were killed in a house fire in Philadelphia.
As said here by David Porter, Bobby Caina Calvan and Michelle L. Price/AP