A portable space heater was behind an apartment fire in New York City that left at least 19 people, including nine children, dead, with dozens more injured.
Roughly 32 people were sent to the hospital on Sunday with life-threatening injuries, and a total of 63 people were injured as the result of an apartment fire in the Bronx, ABC7NY reported. New York City Mayor Eric Adams cited the fire as “one of the worst fires” that the city has seen in years.
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