http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=3937257
A mother, father and their two children are dead
Four family members were killed when tore through an apartment building in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn, just blocks away from another similar fire.
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Six others were injured in the flames, two critically. Some of them were children who were injured when they were thrown out a window to safety.
Louis Reynoso, Fire Victim: "I ran out and i tried to catch all five children, i looked over to the left and I saw a woman hanging off, it was already too late, she jumped."
25 residents were left homeless by the blaze.
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Meanwhile, another fire burned several blocks away burned through a similar four-story apartment building. Fire shot through the roof of that building. No injuries were immediately reported.
"There have been a series of fires that appear at this time to have some similarity, however, we have not made the connection with that," Assistant Fire Chief Howard Hill said.
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Officials say the victims, a mother, father and two children, leaped to their deaths from the blazing four-story apartment building at 1033 Pacific Street. The third-alarm fire started in a hallway of the first floor and spread through the entire building just after 5:30 a.m. Heavy flames tore through the four-story building and out the roof.
Meanwhile, another fire burned several blocks away burned through a similar four-story apartment building. Fire shot through the roof of that building. No injuries were immediately reported.