Nineteen people were killed, including nine children, and dozens were injured from an apartment building fire in The Bronx borough of New York City on Sunday, according to city officials.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams confirmed 19 people had died from the blaze that broke out around 11 a.m. in a 19-floor affordable housing development.
A Reuters photographer at the scene on Sunday saw emergency responders performing CPR on at least eight people in front of the building. Firefighters with hose lines were working to push smoke out of the building, and one of them was seen breaking a window on an upper floor to release the fumes. U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres, a Democrat whose district includes the building, told MSNBC "decades of disinvestment" in affordable housing developments such as this one poses safety risks to residents and leaves such buildings "wide open to catastrophic fires that can cost people their lives."
"Members found victims on every floor in stairwells and were taking them out in cardiac and respiratory arrest," he said.
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