FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro compared the tragedy to the Happy Land inferno, when 87 people died in a fire deliberately set in an illegal Bronx dance club.
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NEW YORK The deadliest New York City fire in decades killed at least 19 Bronx building residents Sunday, including nine children, FDNY sources said.
“This is a horrific, horrific, painful moment for the city of New York and the impact
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A five-alarm fire broke out in Unit 3N of the Twin Parks North West complex in the Bronx shortly before 11am Sunday. A family of nine lived in the unit. The father rescued his child from her burning bed.
Pope Francis offered his condolences Monday to the 17 victims, nine of them children of the apartment fire in the Bronx in a telegram sent to New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan.