WATCH LIVE: Officials provide updates on a fire at a high-rise apartment in the Bronx that killed 19 people, including 9 children:
Hours earlier, the commissioner and Mayor Eric Adams revealed the devastating toll of the morning fire: a total of 63 people had suffered injuries. Thirty-two had been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries and another nine had injuries that were serious. Sadly, 19 of those victims died.
"This is going to be one of the worst fires we have witnessed here in modern times in the City of New York," Adams said the first press conference, hours after smoke tore through the building.Blown out windows and broken glass line the front of the towering apartment structure. Videos capturing the early moments of the blaze show flames spewing out from the duplex windows while smoke covered nearly the entire building.
Firefighters rescued countless residents of the high-rise structure by evacuating them through windows and climbing down ladders. Several of the members, the commissioner said, ran out of oxygen in the course of conducting rescues and continued operations without oxygen. City officials opened a nearby school, the Angelo Patri Middle School on Webster Avenue, to residents of the building who needed assistance. The Red Cross is also offering assistance to families.
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