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3 children among victims in New York City house fire

COLLEEN LONG Fire Commissioner Daniel
JENNIFER PELTZ Nigro said a passing mo-
Associated Press torist saw someone tumble
NEW YORK (AP) — A fast- from a two-story window as
moving fire killed five smoke billowed, and called
people, including three the fire department. The
children, as flames surged victim, a roughly 46-year-
through a New York City old man, fell onto a porch
home on a sunny spring roof and then a lawn and
afternoon, leaving authori- survived, Nigro said.
ties to scour for clues about The wood-frame home
what sparked the deadly burned rapidly and was
blaze. already engulfed in flames
The fire broke out Sunday by the time firefighters ar-
afternoon, on a street full of rived. They struggled to
single-family homes in the reach some of the victims
middle class neighborhood who were as high up as
of Queens Village, a neigh- the attic, a “super-human”
borhood near Belmont task for firefighters to reach
Park, which hosts the Bel- people in a home engulfed
mont Stakes, the final leg in by such a massive fire, Ni-
horse racing’s Triple Crown. gro said. They managed
Television news footage to bring a 2-year-old and
showed flames chewing someone else from the at- New York Fire Department personnel stand outside the scene of a deadly fire Sunday, April 23,
through the roof of the two- tic where they had been 2017, in Queens Village in New York that killed multiple people, including children.
Associated Press
story home and roaring in trapped, he said.
upstairs rooms of the house A neighboring home also she looked out her door limp child from the wreck- theory on what started the
as smoke poured from it. caught fire and was badly and saw the fire, “I could age. blaze, but Nigro said there
“This is a devastation of a damaged, but no one was have fainted.” “It was the worst thing I’ve appeared to be no explo-
family,” Mayor Bill de Bla- inside at the time. “The fire was so intense — ever seen in my life,” neigh- sion, even though witness-
sio said, speaking at the The victims ranged in age there’s no way in the world bor Foster McPhee, 67, told es reported hearing loud
scene of the four-alarm fire. from 2 to 21, plus one adult nobody could go over the New York Post. “The booms.
He said it was “a fire that who was somewhat older, there to save nobody,” guy who was carrying the Witness Tiasha Johnson told
moved very, very quickly, fire officials said. said Murray. baby out, you could just the Daily News of New York
and the loss was horren- Four firefighters suffered mi- She said she babysat some- see the stress on his face. that the family’s relative
dous.” “There’s a lot we nor injuries; no other people times for one of the chil- I’m just emotional about it screamed for the little ones.
need to know about what were injured. dren — “cute little fellow,” because I’m a grandfather “They were screaming,
happened here,” the Dem- Neighbor Dorothy Murray she said. “He’s adorable.” and I have kids, too.” ‘Get the kids out! Get the
ocrat added. told reporters that when First-responders carried a There was no immediate kids out!’” Johnson said. q