Fifteen Firefighters Hurt In Bronx Fire

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Published on March 09, 2011, 7:30 pm
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More than a dozen people were injured Wednesday afternoon, one critically, in a five-alarm fire in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx.

 

Officials say it broke out around 2:00 p.m. on the first floor of a six-story apartment building located at 754 Manida Street in Hunts Point.

The fire later spread to an adjoining two-family home.

Among the injured are fifteen firefighters; two of whom were electrocuted by dangling wires hidden by the smoke.

Firefighters rescued one man who was located inside an apartment three floors above the fire.

He is listed in critical condition.

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Residents at the scene say they were overwhelmed by the flames.

“The fire, it was just ridiculous. It was just all over the place, just coming up out the back,”
said one tenant. “They had to bring the man on the third floor that was paralyzed from the waist down, they had to bring him down to help him and the old lady from the second floor. It was just smoke everywhere, it was ridiculous, you couldn’t see nothing in the building.”

Firefighters say the six-story building was destroyed. As a result, tenants in more than a dozen apartments have been displaced.

There are no details yet on how the fire started.

 

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