Nineteen people, including nine children, have been killed in an apartment fire in New York City, in what the city’s fire commissioner called one of the worst blazes in recent memory.

A fire official who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed the death toll Sunday to the Associated Press, and a city official who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed the number of children dead.

Dozens of people were injured in the Bronx fire, and at least 32 people were hospitalized. According to the fire department, about 200 firefighters responded to the scene Sunday at the Twin Park apartments, a 19-story building on East 181st Street. Photos posted online showed a rescue ladder extended up to an eighth-floor window.

Sunday’s fire comes just days after a house fire in Philadelphia left 12 people — including eight children — dead.

The 32 people were transported to five hospitals, with the majority of the victims suffering from severe smoke inhalation, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said.

Firefighters “found victims on every floor and were taking them out in cardiac and respiratory arrest,” he said. “That is unprecedented in our city. We expect there to be numerous fatalities.”

Nigro compared the severity of the fire to the Happy Land social club fire, which killed 87 people in 1990 when man set fire to the building after getting into an argument with his former girlfriend and being thrown out of the club.

According to Nigro, Sunday’s fire originated in a duplex apartment spanning the second and third floors. Firefighters found the door to the apartment open, he said, which apparently allowed the fire to accelerate and spread smoke upward quickly.

The fire is not believed to be suspicious in origin, but the cause is under investigation.

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RIP to them dead.

NYC crazy city, a hundred ways to die, something must get you.

Gun violence in all them boroughs.

Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, Manhattan, Queens.

Shit is crazy.

I said what I said

Dammmmm!.

Why do they always give uncle righteousness some thing to eat.

When will he do fasting self?

This Life…
One minute you’re here
Next minute, you are no more..
Oluwa Sanu wa oo

Oh my God!

So life was lost. Rest in peace to the dead.

Terrible things happening everyday
R.I.P to them.

Damn it

HonNL:


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Strange things are happening lately...May God keep us safe

Damn

G

Lord have mercy

Save the remain

EBUBECHISOM:
Strange things are happening lately...May God keep us safe

What the bleep is strange about a building burning??

Ok

Evil America your days are numbered. No single American will escape the karma coming soon. Your evil of years past will catch up with you

Nawa o, lord have mercy

This fire is not ordinary. This is a sign that the world is coming to an end. My brothers and sisters, get ready for rapture.

Dear Pastor Righteousness, hope I tried

Oh so sorry to the bereaved.

Children always the most affected. Damn!


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Damn! If this kind thing happen for my country, we go blame Buhari May be set na Buhari cors am.

Wetin concern me
RIP to the dead n fast recovery for the injured

What a tragedy I pray may the gentle soul that was lost rest in perfect peace Amen

so sad

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If it were to be in Nigeria, some particular group of people would have gone to town with propaganda that zoo government are targeting their business. You get it, if you don't get it, forget about it