Dozens of people were injured, some seriously, in the fire that broke out in a 19-story building this Sunday in the Bronx, New York, announced the New York City Fire Department (FDNY).
“Currently, there are 31 seriously injured,” says the FDNY.
At least 200 firefighters participated in the extinguishing of the fire that broke out around midmorning in a duplex located on the second and third floors of a residential building at 333 East 181 Street, in the heart of the Bronx, according to the FDNY. .
The local media report, for their part, more than 60 injured.
According to images released on the FDNY Twitter account, flames topped by a thick column of black smoke emerged from a second-story window of this brown brick building.
However, fire brigade ladders could be seen on upper floors of the building.
The commissioner of the fire department, Dan Nigro, quoted by the CBS chain, assured that there could be “several fatalities”, although so far no deceased has been reported.
“The last time we had loss of life, such as this horrible (incident), was 30 years ago, also in the Bronx,” said Nigro.
The fire in a three-story building in Philadelphia last Wednesday is still fresh in memory.
There, 12 people died, eight of them minors, in one of the worst accidents in the recent history of the country.
