Crime & Safety
Fire Tears Through Bronx Building, Injures 19: FDNY
The Wednesday morning blaze started on the building's ground level and spread to the second and third floors, the FDNY said.
THE BRONX, NY — A two-alarm fire tore through a residential building in the Bronx and left more than a dozen people injured early Wednesday morning, the FDNY said. The blaze in the three-story building on Holland Avenue near East 214th Street was first reported at 6:10 a.m., a Fire Department spokesman said.
The fire started on the ground floor and spread to the building's second and third floors, the spokesman said. It was under control just after 7:15 a.m., he said.
The blaze left two people critically injured, seven seriously hurt and 10 others, including one firefighter and an NYPD cop, with minor injuries, according to the FDNY.
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Video from the Citizen app showed smoke pouring out of the building and a firefighter ascending a ladder towards the roof.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, the FDNY said.
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