A man died in an early morning fire that destroyed an apartment in the Bronx (NYC) and left a woman seriously injured and several people homeless..
According to FDNY officials, the fire broke out on the 2nd floor of the three-story building located on East 176th St. near Topping Ave. in Mount Hope around 6:10 a.m. Thursday.
Fire chiefs are investigating the origin of the fire. An electric fan could have caused the tragedyaccording to landlord Linford Douglas, who saw the device burning in his tenant’s apartment when he went to investigate the smoke.
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Man dies in raging fire that tore through Bronx apartment and left woman clinging to life
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After being alerted to the fire, Douglas (72) opened the door to a 2nd floor apartment and saw the electric fan on fire. He immediately poured water on him and threw him down the stairs. “It kept burning because it was plastic and the plastic was melting,” Douglas said to the Daily News. When he went to get more water he saw that his door was on fire, he added.
A man in his 50s was rescued and died at the scene., the police said. His name was not immediately mentioned. Unfortunately the victim He barricaded himself inside the bathroom of his apartment while the fire burnedeven after neighbors implored him to leave the building.
“I told him to leave,” recalled neighbor William Martínez (79). “I said, ‘We have to get out of here!’ And he just turned around and walked back in.” That fatal decision left Martínez baffled.
A woman believed to be between 30 and 40 years old and who also lives on the 2nd floor suffered smoke inhalation and A firefighter fighting the fire sprained his kneethe FDNY said. Both were taken to area hospitals, where The tenant was in critical condition.
The fire was extinguished within two hours. FDNY Deputy Chief Christopher Ritchie said that A “disorderly condition” prevented firefighters from dumping water on the fire. “When we got there, there was intense fire on the 2nd and 3rd floors that spread to the attic… There was a lot of mess, so it took some time to get to the location where the fire occurred.”
At least four people were displaced from their homes as a result of the flames, the NYPD said.
In a similar tragedy, last week a 67-year-old man was killed and three other people were injured, including an infant, in a public housing (NYCHA) apartment fire in Brooklyn.
Previously, a woman tragically died at age 86 when a fire destroyed her home in Queens (NYC) and also left three injured.
In early January, a 5-year-old boy died and three other adults were injured in a fire in The Bronx (NYC). It was the third similar tragedy with a total of 6 minors killed in residential fires in New York City (2) and Connecticut (4) in the first days of 2024.
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