At least 19 people died and about sixty were injured this Sunday in a building fire in the Bronx district of New York, announced on the spot the new mayor of the city Eric Adams. “This is going to be one of the worst fires in our history. We know we have 19 people dead along with several others in critical condition and over 63 people injured.”Adams said live on television.
New York’s new mayor, a former African-American policeman who took office on January 1, spoke of a “real tragedy not just for the Bronx and the city”. On images circulating on social networks, huge flames and thick black smoke billowed in the morning from a window of a multi-story building in the Bronx, a huge neighborhood in upstate New York.
The firefighters had initially announced an assessment of about thirty injured. New York, a megalopolis of nine million inhabitants, is suffering in various neighborhoods from a huge housing crisis, with buildings that are sometimes dilapidated and poorly maintained.
