2017 Bronx apartment fire
| Date | December 28, 2017 |
|---|---|
| Time | 6:51 p.m. EST |
| Location | 2363 Prospect Avenue, Belmont, Bronx, New York City[1] |
| Coordinates | 40°51′12.2″N 73°52′59.1″W / 40.853389°N 73.883083°WCoordinates: 40°51′12.2″N 73°52′59.1″W / 40.853389°N 73.883083°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
| Type | Structure fire |
| Cause | Three-year-old boy playing with stove, door of burning apartment left open |
| Deaths | 12 |
| Non-fatal injuries | 6 |
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| Location of the 2017 Bronx apartment fire |
On December 28, 2017, a five-alarm fire broke out in a five-story apartment building in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. It killed twelve people and injured six, four of them critically. Three children were among the dead.[1] Excluding the September 11 attacks, the fire was the deadliest in the city since the 1990 Happy Land fire, which killed 87 people, also in the Bronx.[2] In 2007, a similar incident at another home in the Bronx killed 10 people, including 9 children, after a space heater caught fire.[3]
Incident
The fire started at about 6:51 p.m. EST on the building's ground floor and was extinguished just before 10 p.m. EST.[4] It spread quickly through the 25-unit apartment building, which was built in 1916 and had not been fireproofed.[4][3] Heavy winds contributed to the growth of the fire, and also brought the wind chill that night to below zero, with temperatures already in the teens.[4] The fire climbed upwards through the building's stairwell, blocking attempts by some residents to evacuate, though many others descended to street level through the building's exterior fire escape.[4] The inferno was under control after about three hours, with over 160 firefighters responding to the emergency.[4]
The city's fire commissioner Daniel Nigro later stated that the fire had been started by a three-year-old who had been playing with a gas kitchen stove while unsupervised.[5][3] As the boy and his mother were fleeing their basement apartment, they left their door open, allowing the fire to spread up the stairwell to other units in the building.[4] The design of the building did not appear to be related to the spread of the fire. However, the building reportedly also had six unresolved violations of fire regulations, including a broken smoke detector on the ground floor.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Astor, Maggie; Southall, Ashley (December 28, 2017). "Bronx Fire, City's Deadliest in Decades, Kills at Least 12 and Injures More". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- ↑ Joseph, Elizabeth (December 27, 2017). "'Worst NYC fire' in 25 years kills at least 12, injures 4 people". CNN. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Rosenberg, Eli (December 29, 2017). "Child playing with stove started deadliest New York City fire in 25 years, officials say". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Mueller, Benjamin; Wang, Vivian (December 29, 2017). "Child Playing With Stove Caused Bronx Fire That Killed 12". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- ↑ "Deadly NYC fire 'caused by child playing'". December 29, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2017 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
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