At least 19 people have died and dozens are injured after a fire tore through a high-rise apartment building in the New York borough of the Bronx, Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday.
NEW YORK - At least 19 people have died and dozens are injured after a fire tore through a high-rise apartment building in the New York borough of the"We know that we have 19 people who are confirmed dead, as well as several others in critical condition," Adams, who has been mayor for barely over a week, told CNN, adding that 63 people had been injured.The injured were taken to five hospitals; many suffered from cardiac and respiratory arrest, the New York Times reported.
The blaze comes just four days after a fire in Philadelphia killed 12 people, including eight children, in a three-story public housing building in what was one of the deadliest recent fires in the United States.
Photographs and video posted on social media showed flames and thick black smoke billowing out of a third-story window of the brick building as firefighters operated on a nearby ladder.