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A man died yesterday when flames destroyed a single-family home in the Bronx (NYC) that was illegally divided into 17 small apartments rented to low-income people.said city officials and residents of the building.

The fire broke out around 2 p.m. Friday at the three-story home on Grand Ave. between W. 190th and W. 192nd Sts. in the neighborhood Fordhamhe indicated Daily News.

The deceased has not been identified. The Red Cross has offered emergency shelter to residents left homelesssaid the city’s Department of Buildings (DOB).

A man died when flames roared through a single-family Bronx house that was illegally divided into 17 tiny apartments rented cheap to low-income people.https://t.co/QkpFC5FBSG

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 2, 2024

“We had fire on three floors and in the attic,” said FDNY Deputy Chief William McCormack. Firefighters found the man dead in the attic, where he was sleeping on an air mattress, although the space did not seem “livable.”

“That’s where I lived. I worked at a car wash”said a tenant who did not give his name. “He was a good, hard-working guy.”

McCormack said that Although the building was already divided into several small spaces, its owner was in the process of building more. The new construction may have been where the fire started, the cause of which has not yet been determined.

“They are all rented rooms,” added the tenant. “We have lived there for years. The rents are $200, $250 and $300 dollars a month.”

City officials had been told the building was divided into many separate apartments. A complaint on the DOB portal in February 2021 states that one resident reported living in what he believed was an illegal basement apartment. “I didn’t know it was illegal when it was rented to him,” the record says.

Similar complaints were made about the building in 2008, 2011 and 2018. DOB officials say they are investigating and “additional enforcement actions are pending that investigation.”

In two similar cases, this week Firefighters found dozens of immigrants living crammed among electric bicycles at high risk of fires in furniture store basements in Queens and The Bronx, both owned by the same person.

2024-03-02 14:21:00
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A man died yesterday when flames destroyed a single-family home in the Bronx (NYC) that was illegally divided into 17 small apartments rented to low-income people.said city officials and residents of the building.

The fire broke out around 2 p.m. Friday at the three-story home on Grand Ave. between W. 190th and W. 192nd Sts. in the neighborhood Fordhamhe indicated Daily News.

The deceased has not been identified. The Red Cross has offered emergency shelter to residents left homelesssaid the city’s Department of Buildings (DOB).

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A man died when flames roared through a single-family Bronx house that was illegally divided into 17 tiny apartments rented cheap to low-income people.https://t.co/QkpFC5FBSG

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 2, 2024

“We had fire on three floors and in the attic,” said FDNY Deputy Chief William McCormack. Firefighters found the man dead in the attic, where he was sleeping on an air mattress, although the space did not seem “livable.”

“That’s where I lived. I worked at a car wash”said a tenant who did not give his name. “He was a good, hard-working guy.”

McCormack said that Although the building was already divided into several small spaces, its owner was in the process of building more. The new construction may have been where the fire started, the cause of which has not yet been determined.

“They are all rented rooms,” added the tenant. “We have lived there for years. The rents are $200, $250 and $300 dollars a month.”

City officials had been told the building was divided into many separate apartments. A complaint on the DOB portal in February 2021 states that one resident reported living in what he believed was an illegal basement apartment. “I didn’t know it was illegal when it was rented to him,” the record says.

Similar complaints were made about the building in 2008, 2011 and 2018. DOB officials say they are investigating and “additional enforcement actions are pending that investigation.”

In two similar cases, this week Firefighters found dozens of immigrants living crammed among electric bicycles at high risk of fires in furniture store basements in Queens and The Bronx, both owned by the same person.

2024-03-02 14:21:00
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A man died in an early morning fire that destroyed an apartment in the Bronx (NYC) and left a woman seriously injured and several people homeless..

According to FDNY officials, the fire broke out on the 2nd floor of the three-story building located on East 176th St. near Topping Ave. in Mount Hope around 6:10 a.m. Thursday.

Fire chiefs are investigating the origin of the fire. An electric fan could have caused the tragedyaccording to landlord Linford Douglas, who saw the device burning in his tenant’s apartment when he went to investigate the smoke.

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Man dies in raging fire that tore through Bronx apartment and left woman clinging to life

The fire broke out on the top floor of a three-story buildinghttps://t.co/jkYk1fRy2O

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 15, 2024

After being alerted to the fire, Douglas (72) opened the door to a 2nd floor apartment and saw the electric fan on fire. He immediately poured water on him and threw him down the stairs. “It kept burning because it was plastic and the plastic was melting,” Douglas said to the Daily News. When he went to get more water he saw that his door was on fire, he added.

A man in his 50s was rescued and died at the scene., the police said. His name was not immediately mentioned. Unfortunately the victim He barricaded himself inside the bathroom of his apartment while the fire burnedeven after neighbors implored him to leave the building.

“I told him to leave,” recalled neighbor William Martínez (79). “I said, ‘We have to get out of here!’ And he just turned around and walked back in.” That fatal decision left Martínez baffled.

A woman believed to be between 30 and 40 years old and who also lives on the 2nd floor suffered smoke inhalation and A firefighter fighting the fire sprained his kneethe FDNY said. Both were taken to area hospitals, where The tenant was in critical condition.

The fire was extinguished within two hours. FDNY Deputy Chief Christopher Ritchie said that A “disorderly condition” prevented firefighters from dumping water on the fire. “When we got there, there was intense fire on the 2nd and 3rd floors that spread to the attic… There was a lot of mess, so it took some time to get to the location where the fire occurred.”

At least four people were displaced from their homes as a result of the flames, the NYPD said.

In a similar tragedy, last week a 67-year-old man was killed and three other people were injured, including an infant, in a public housing (NYCHA) apartment fire in Brooklyn.

Previously, a woman tragically died at age 86 when a fire destroyed her home in Queens (NYC) and also left three injured.

In early January, a 5-year-old boy died and three other adults were injured in a fire in The Bronx (NYC). It was the third similar tragedy with a total of 6 minors killed in residential fires in New York City (2) and Connecticut (4) in the first days of 2024.

2024-02-17 05:47:00
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