three feet away from bedding or kurtents, don t use in a bathroom and never use an extension cord. you emphasized the importance of fire safety, closing the door. why is that important? crucial to the numbers of lives we lost were due to not actually fire but smoke, and something simple as closing a door can allow firefighters to respond and save lives. reporter: 17 people lost their lives in this tragedy. it comes less than a week after an apartment fire in philadelphia claimed the lives of 12 people. mayor adams called this a global tragedy because many of the victims are immigrants from gambia and west africa. an online fundraiser to help those impacted raised more than half a million dollars in just one day. o donnell: nancy chen in the bronx, thanks. a ballots of cold arctic air has temperatures plummeting across the northeast. more than 10 million americans