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At least 19 people died Sunday and about sixty were injured in a building fire in the Bronx district of New York, announced on the spot the new mayor of the city Eric Adams. About 200 firefighters were mobilized on site in the middle of the day.
At least 19 people have died and around 60 injured in a huge fire that broke out on Sunday, January 9 in the New York neighborhood of the Bronx, city firefighters announced.
“This is going to be one of the worst fires in our history. We know that we have 19 people dead as well as several others in critical condition and more than 63 people injured,” Eric Adams, the mayor, said live on television. from New York.
About 200 firefighters were mobilized on site in the middle of the day. Firefighters identified “31 serious injuries to civilians,” they tweeted around 12:30 p.m. local time.
In footage circulating on social media, huge flames and thick black smoke billowed from a window of a multi-story building.
The city’s mayor attended, according to his official Twitter account, where photos of him alongside firefighters were posted.
Another fire this week killed 12 people including eight children in a neighborhood in central Philadelphia.
A megalopolis of nine million inhabitants, New York is suffering in various neighborhoods from a huge housing crisis, with buildings that are sometimes dilapidated and poorly maintained.
With AFP
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