bringing in former fire chief downey, crews were down i think in three minutes first response, still, 19 people dead, 13 others with life-threatening injuries. what does it tell you about the nature of this fire and the smoke that it caused? well, i mean clearly it was a well-i well-involved apartment, a lot of fire when the crews arrived, you know, based on the time of year, the building is sealed up, trying to keep the heat in and keep the residents warm and so the smoke, there s nowhere for the smoke to travel out of the building so it travelled through those windowless hall ways and those areas where it could extend up higher into the building. these highrise fires are personnel intensive, requiring a lot of people to affect rescue and fire suppression. yeah, i mean the scale of the response and the after from the fdny i think the mayor said some
tonight. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour in new york, what s being called the city s deadliest fire in 30 years. 19 people were killed including five children. the fire broke out shortly before noon today in a bronx apartment building. authorities say a faulty space heater sparked the blaze which quickly spread throughout two floors. firefighters were on the scene within minutes and quickly launched rescues but an open door to the apartment where the fire started sent massive amounts of smoke pouring out into the stairways, leaving people unable to find their way out. cnn s polo sandoval has been on the scene for hours. polo, what are you learning right now based on what s transpired over the course of the last several hours? reporter: phil, a lot of people who live in that building are left wondering when they ll be allowed to go back inside. to give you a sense of how things developed earlier today, that fire was actually in a duplex apartment on the third floor o
also here, to make sure these families have as much peace as they can right now as they try to pick up the pieces because it s still unclear whether some of these families will be allowed to go back into their apartment so certainly going to have to turn to some of the resources made available by the city of new york in terms of temp raerp temporary housing and potentially long term, phil. yeah, a real tragedy, thank you so much and joining me now, the first deputy commissioner, chri chri chri christina ferell, i guess you heard the press conference report, what happens right now, this is 120 unit building. to those who survived this fire, survived the smoke, what s happening to those who lived in this building right now? sure, thank you, so right now, there s a middleschool right next to the building that we were able to open up working with the principles today and so
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people just screaming. neighbours looked on with horror as heavy clouds of smoke engulfed the entire bronx apartment building. taking his time. he got the baby. firefighters were on the scene within minutes. as they battled the initial blaze from a lower level apartment, the rising smoke proved to be deadly. it was just pitch black in my house in the daytime. they were putting out the fire and all you could see is black smoke in front of my window, black smoke. into all the smoke and just inhaling it. it is just so thick. it is like you cannot breathe. it is like you are being suffocated. in those chaotic moments, victims were found on every floor. some struggled to breathe and others were in cardiac arrest. later, officials said it was a portable space heater that caused one of the worst fire disasters in new york s history. it started in a malfunctioning electric space heater. that was the cause of the fire. the fire consumed that apartment