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19 Confirmed Dead, Dozens More Critically Injured In Deadliest NYC Fire Of This Century 19 Confirmed Dead, Dozens More Critically Injured In Deadliest NYC Fire Of This Century
19 Confirmed Dead, Dozens More Critically Injured In Deadliest NYC Fire Of This Century UPDATE: At least 19 people, including nine children, were killed Sunday when a fire tore through a high-rise Bronx apartment building -- a blaze that New York City Mayor Eric Adams called "one of the worst that we have witnessed during modern times.” The cause of the five-alarm fire? A "malfunctioning electric space heater” in a bedroom of a duplex apartment on the second and third floors of the 19-story building, NYFD Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. A door to the apartment was left open, filling the building with smoke, Nigro told reporters. All of the children killed were 16 years old a…

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