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At least 19 dead in horrific NYC fire
Correspondent Alexis McAdams reports from NYC where a fire broke out taking the lives of at least 19 people, a malfunctioning space heater is believed to have been the cause.
Two massive fires have devastated the United States in the first nine days of 2022, with a Philadelphia row house fire killing 12 people on Jan. 5 and a New York City apartment fire killing 17 on Sunday.
“This is going to be one of the worst fires that we have witnessed during modern times,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said of Sunday’s fire, which also left at least 63 people injured.
The Philadelphia row house fire, which authorities say may have been started by a toddler who was playing with a lighter near a Christmas tree, was the deadliest to hit the city in more than a century.
Here is a look at some of the deadliest residential fires over the last 20 years in the United States.
Chicago apartment fire on Aug. 26, 2018
Ten children died in this Chicago apartment when a fire broke out in August 2018.
(Chicago Fire Department)
Ten minors, including six children under the age of 12, were killed during a sleepover when a blaze broke out on the porch of a Chicago apartment on Aug. 26, 2018.
No adults were present when the fire broke out and there were no working smoke detectors in the home.
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The building’s landlord was cited just three years earlier for not having a smoke detector in the unit where the fire started, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Bronx apartment fire on Dec. 28, 2017
New York Fire Department ladder trucks deploy at a building fire in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, U.S. December 28, 2017. (NYFD/Handout via REUTERS)
A 3-year-old playing with stove burners started this fire on the first floor of a five-story Bronx apartment building, leaving 13 people dead on Dec. 28, 2017.
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