So far, firefighters have not determined the cause of the fire. Rockland County authorities confirmed the death of one of the nursing home residents.
New York, March 23 (EFE) .- A fire in a housing complex for seniors left this Tuesday at least one dead and two firefighters injured north of New York, according to local media.
The great fire broke out in the early morning hours and engulfed nearly the entire Evergreen Court Home senior complex in Rockland County, as well as causing at least one two-story building to collapse, according to the local news channel. WNBC.
Rockland County authorities confirmed that the fire, which could not be controlled until the early hours of Tuesday morning, caused one death among residents and forced two firefighters to attend to injuries and inhalation of smoke.
One of the volunteers who assisted in the evacuation showed images of just over ten people evacuated in a bus, although the complex can accommodate up to 200 beds and that at the time of the accident it had about 113 residents.
The firefighters have not been able, for the moment, to determine the causes of the fire, which has left all the elderly who resided there without a home.
Nursing homes, such as the one that has been consumed by the flames, have been the hardest hit by the impact of the pandemic in New York State.
The vaccination campaign has served to reduce mortality in these centers, which saw the highest death rate from covid-19 and whose data the state governor, Andrew Cuomo, tried to hide.
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