'Victims on every floor': At least 19 dead in New York apartment fire

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NEW YORK CITY: At least 19 people died, including nine children, and dozens were injured when a fire tore through a high-rise apartment building in New York City on Sunday (Jan 9), its mayor said, in one of America\u0027s worst residential fires in recent memory. Witnesses reported seeing trapped residents scre

NEW YORK CITY: At least 19 people died, including nine children, and dozens were injured when a fire tore through a high-rise apartment building in New York City on Sunday , its mayor said, in one of America's worst residential fires in recent memory.

Mayor Eric Adams told reporters that 19 people have been confirmed dead and 63 had been wounded, including several that were in a"critical condition"."Join me in praying for those we lost, especially the 9 innocent young lives that were cut short," he added in a later tweet. "I saw the smoke, a lot of people were panicking. You could see that no one wanted to jump from the building. People were waving from the windows," he added.

"The marshals have determined through physical evidence and through firsthand accounts by the residents that this fire started in a bedroom in a portable electric heater," New York City Fire Department Commissioner Daniel Nigro told reporters. He explained that the fire originated in a duplex apartment on the second and third floors of the building.

"They took my daughter away from me and I got panicked. Once I was walking the stairs, I saw a body on the floor that they tried to rescue. Also a dog, it was dead. And it was really devastating," she said.

 

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