Four members of a Bronx family are all currently at a local hospital in critical condition including a 4-year-old boy fighting for his life after a fire late Tuesday morning.
The scooter was in the living room of an apartment in a seven-story Sotomayor Houses tower on Watson Ave. near Rosedale Ave. in Soundview just before 11 a.m. Tuesday when the overheated battery caught fire.
Fire officials said the lithium ion battery in an electronic scooter sparked a fire that ripped through a Bronx apartment Tuesday morning and critically injured four family members, including a 4-year-old boy.