2 People Killed In Upper West Side Apartment Fire: FDNY

The deadly blaze took place late Wednesday evening inside of an apartment at 216 West 62nd Street on the UWS, FDNY said.

Posted Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 9:25 am ET|Updated Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 9:28 am ET

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Two people were killed in a fire Wednesday night within a building on the Upper West Side, FDNY said.

The deadly blaze took place around 11:35 p.m. within the fourth-floor apartment of 216 West 62nd Street (West End Avenue), FDNY said.

Firefighters found a 44-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman within the UWS home, both were pronounced dead at the scene.

A preliminary investigation by the NYC Fire Marshall deemed the fire not suspicious at the time, but the process remains ongoing.

The FDNY did not provide a possible explanation for how the fire started.

Police did tell the New York Post, though, that the blaze began inside a laundry room, and was preliminarily ruled to be electrical.

The identities of the 44-year-old and 70-year-old are pending proper family notification.

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