Boy Playing With Stove Caused Bronx Fire That Killed 12
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Boy Playing With Stove Caused Bronx Fire That Killed 12
The boy playing with the stove in a first-floor apartment screamed when the fire began, sending
his mother rushing into the kitchen as it filled with smoke and flames, Mr. Nigro said.
The 12 fatalities made the fire the deadliest since an inferno at the Happy Land
Social Club — less than a mile from Thursday’s blaze — killed 87 people in 1990.
A Bronx fire that killed 12 people was caused by a 3-year-old boy playing with the burners on a stove, the authorities said on Friday.
At least 12 people are dead after a fire ripped through an apartment building in the Bronx.
When firefighters arrived, about three minutes after the first 911 calls, as many as 20 people were scurrying down the fire escape, Mr. Nigro said.
She ran out of the apartment with the boy and a 2-year-old child,
but left the door open, allowing fire to shoot out of the kitchen and into the stairwell, Mr. Nigro said.
The boy playing with the stove in a first-floor apartment screamed when the fire began, sending
his mother rushing into the kitchen as it filled with smoke and flames, Mr. Nigro said.
The 12 fatalities made the fire the deadliest since an inferno at the Happy Land
Social Club — less than a mile from Thursday’s blaze — killed 87 people in 1990.
A Bronx fire that killed 12 people was caused by a 3-year-old boy playing with the burners on a stove, the authorities said on Friday.
At least 12 people are dead after a fire ripped through an apartment building in the Bronx.
When firefighters arrived, about three minutes after the first 911 calls, as many as 20 people were scurrying down the fire escape, Mr. Nigro said.
She ran out of the apartment with the boy and a 2-year-old child,
but left the door open, allowing fire to shoot out of the kitchen and into the stairwell, Mr. Nigro said.