{"id":55647,"date":"2017-12-29T04:47:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T04:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=55647"},"modified":"2017-12-29T04:47:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T04:47:10","slug":"twelve-dead-in-new-york-city-apartment-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/twelve-dead-in-new-york-city-apartment-fire.html","title":{"rendered":"Twelve dead in New York City apartment fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twelve dead in New York City apartment fire<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Twelve people were killed, including an infant, and four were critically injured on Thursday in a fire in an apartment building in New York City\u2019s borough of the Bronx, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople died on various floors of the apartment, ranging in age from 1 to over 50,\u201d city Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro told reporters at a news conference with the mayor.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis tragedy is without question historic in its magnitude.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In a message to New Yorkers, de Blasio said, \u201cHold your families close and keep those families here in the Bronx in your prayers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Few official details of the blaze were immediately available. WABC-TV, the New York affiliate of the ABC television network, said it erupted shortly before 7 p.m. on the third floor of a five-story building.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was no serious damage to the exterior of the building visible in news footage and images from the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

The New York City Fire Department initially had said on its Twitter account that 15 serious injuries to civilians were reported in the four-alarm blaze, and that more than 160 firefighters were on the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photographs posted on Twitter by the fire department showed two fire trucks with ladders extended to the upper floors of a brick building bathed in flood lights, and firefighters on the fire escape outside what appeared to be a second- or third-floor unit.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mayor\u2019s official Twitter page displayed a photo of de Blasio, standing in the room of a school across the street from the fire, with his hands on his hips and a grim look on his face as he was being briefed by fire authorities before speaking to reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-new-york-fire\/twelve-dead-in-new-york-city-apartment-fire-mayor-idUSKBN1EN04S<\/span><\/p>\n

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