Posted on 01/09/2022 10:45:41 AM PST by janetjanet998
TREMONT, Bronx (WABC) -- More than 60 people were hurt, dozens with life-threatening injuries, in a massive fire that broke out at a high-rise apartment building in the Bronx Sunday, officials said.
Officials say the five-alarm fire started in a duplex apartment on the third floor of a 19-story high-rise building at 333 East 181st Street in the Tremont section of the Bronx just before 11 a.m. Sunday.
Mr. Adams is off to a great start. /s
VIDEO of the fire
Dozens of people are seriously injured following a major blaze in the Bronx.
https://rumble.com/vs953d-dozens-of-people-are-seriously-injured-following-a-major-blaze-in-the-bronx.html
I know how to prevent this from happening again: wring hands and bloat government!
Let’s see if I’m right.
/s
Space heater?
Why would ANYONE live in a Bronx high rise?
“This is going to be one of the worst fires we have witnessed here in modern times in the city of New York,” Mayor Eric Adams said at a press conference.
Global warming?
That may be one of the most insensitive and hateful comments I’ve read on this site.
Gee, I seem to recall a much worse one on September 11, 2001.
PBS ‘Nova’ had a show about the inherent dangers of high-rises and as you might expect, fire was one of them. They were making the point of how sprinklers are now required in NYC, but weren’t always. They then showed a fire in an apartment that killed the tenant and injured some firefighters. The building was built before sprinklers were required. They made a point of showing it was Trump Tower.
Not even close.
Fire kills 87 people at the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx in 1990
An arsonist carrying a grudge and a container of gasoline sparked the inferno that killed 87 panicstricken revelers early yesterday in an illegal Bronx social club, authorities said.
This fire made 1990 the year with the most NYC homicides.
Hopefully all the fire fighters were vaccinated ha ha ha ha
While looking for footage of this fire I discovered there was another fire in the Bronx caused by a lithium ion battery exploding. I wonder how many house fires in the future will be caused by car batteries overheating.
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