Fire Ravages Bronx Home
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NEW YORK (AP) – A fire in a Bronx home early Friday injured five people, four of them seriously, firefighters said.
“It was crazy,” witness Derek Roman told WBNC-TV. He said he had seen a man “running out of the house, fire blazing, trying to get the chidren out of the apartment.”
Firefighters said they did not know the victims’ ages.
The victims were taken to Jacobi Medical Center. Messages left for a hospital spokesman were not immediately returned Friday morning.
The fire started around 1:30 a.m. in the basement of a two-story house on Unionport Road, according to firefighters. It was under control by 2:20 a.m.
The home is divided into apartments, said neighbor Concetta Casatelli. It is near the Parkchester neighborhood, about five miles from the home engulfed earlier this month by the city’s deadliest fire in almost two decades. That blaze killed 10 people – nine of them children – from two families of Malian immigrants who shared the home.
