At least 19 are dead, including nine children, after dozens were injured in a fire at a Bronx apartment in New York City.
Summary
- 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 in the fire, according to the New York City Fire Department.
- Many of the injured victims were located on the upper floors and likely suffered from severe smoke inhalation, New York City Fire Department Commissioner Daniel Nigro said during a press conference Sunday afternoon.
- “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.
- A total of 73 people died in New York City fires in all of 2021.