New York City building space heater malfunction sparks fire that kills 19, including 9 children

But smoke still spread to every floor of the building, likely because the door to the apartment was left open, and victims suffered from significant smoke inhalation, the city’s fire department commissioner Daniel Nigro told reporters at a news briefing.

He added that the heat had been on in the apartment building and that the portable heater had been supplementing that heating.This was the second major deadly fire in a residential complex in the US this week after twelve people, including eight children, were killed early on Wednesday when flames swept through a public housing apartment building in Philadelphia.

The building did not have external fire escapes, and residents were meant to evacuate through interior stairways, Mr Nigro said.Some 200 firefighters helped put out the blaze, and some ran out of oxygen in their tanks but pushed through anyway to rescue people from the building, Mr Adams told CNN on Sunday.A Reuters photographer at the scene on Sunday saw emergency responders performing CPR on at least eight people in front of the building.

Mr Nigro said he believed there were 120 apartments in the building. "There’s a very large number of people right now who need a place to stay," he said. "We are devastated by the unimaginable loss of life caused by this profound tragedy," a spokesperson for the joint venture said.

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