A person was killed in a Manhattan house hearth on Saturday morning, in keeping with the FDNY, in one among a number of fires that erupted in a single day and into the morning throughout town.
Firefighters and cops arrived on the 12-story house constructing on W. 71st St. close to Columbus Ave. on the Higher West Facet at round 7:30 a.m. and found the blaze on the Tenth ground, FDNY officers stated.
First responders discovered 78-year-old William Inexperienced unconscious and unresponsive, in keeping with police. Medics pronounced Inexperienced useless on the scene.
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A 78-year-old man was pronounced useless on the scene after a hearth broke out inside his Tenth-floor house on W. 71st St. in Manhattan on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024.
By round 8 a.m., the roughly 80 responding firefighters introduced the flames below management, FDNY officers stated.
Hearth marshals had been nonetheless working to find out the reason for the blaze on Saturday afternoon and no arrests had been made, cops stated.
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Hearth marshals had been working to find out the reason for the lethal blaze at 111 W. 71st St. in Manhattan on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024.
Earlier Saturday morning, firefighters extinguished 4 different blazes in Queens and the Bronx.
One individual was injured in an house constructing hearth that broke out at round 2:40 a.m. on 118th Ave. close to 153rd St. in South Jamaica.
Sixty responding firefighters battled the flames, bringing them below management by about 3:40 a.m. Medics rushed the injured individual to Jamaica Hospital Medical Heart, an FDNY spokesperson stated.
Firefighters additionally extinguished fires at a Whitestone home, an Astoria shoe retailer and a Throgs Neck house in a single day. No accidents had been reported.
