Tragic Fire In The Bronx Of New York 9 Children's Dead 10 Adults.🔥

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Death Toll Likely to Rise After NYC Apartment Inferno Kills 19, Half of Them Kids . Up to 13 people remained in critical condition Monday, with many more hospitalized, after New York City's deadliest fire in three decades tore through a towering Bronx apartment complex, killing nearly two dozen. Nine were children. Investigators determined that a malfunctioning electric space heater, plugged in to give extra heat on a cold morning, started the fire in the 19-story building on 181st Street early Sunday afternoon. A door left open in the burning apartment fueled the spread of flames and ultimately the devastating loss of life and property. The flames damaged only a small part of the building, but smoke escaped through that open door and billowed through stairwells and halls, trapping many people in their apartments and incapacitating others as they fled. Most of the deaths were due to smoke inhalation, and many of those victims were found in hallways. Multiple limp children were seen being given oxygen after they were carried out. Evacuees had faces covered in soot. There were harrowing tales of survival, as some used curtains or sheets to make makeshift ropes for window escapes. The fire originated in a duplex on the second and third floors of the building but never extended past the unit and the hallway nearest the apartment, officials said. The smoke turned stairwells — the only method of flight in a building too tall for fire escapes — into dark, ash-choked horrors. Building resident Sandra Clayton grabbed her dog Mocha and ran for her life when she saw the hallway fill with smoke and heard people screaming, “Get out! Get out!” Clayton, 61, said she groped her way down a darkened stairway, clutching Mocha. The smoke was so black she couldn’t see, but she could hear neighbors wailing and crying nearby. “I just ran down the steps as much as I could but people was falling all over me, screaming,” Clayton said from a hospital where she was treated for smoke inhalation. In the commotion, her dog slipped from her grasp. It was later found dead in a stairwell. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/Teddy-G/support