A fire set by an inmate at New York City's troubled Rikers Island injured 20 people on a day that lawmakers visited the jail complex, authorities said.
A fire set by an inmate at New York City's troubled Rikers Island injured 20 people on a day that lawmakers visited the jail complex, authorities said.
Fifteen staff members and five inmates were injured in the fire that started about 1:30 p.m. Thursday, the city Correction Department said. The New York City Fire Department extinguished the blaze within an hour, a department spokesperson said. Fifteen of the injured were taken to hospitals for treatment, while the other five declined medical attention, the Fire Department said. Information on the victims' conditions was not available Friday.
“The health and safety of those who work and live in our facilities is our main priority," James Boyd, the Correction Department’s deputy commissioner for public information, said in a statement."We take arson very seriously, and will pursue re-arrest of the individual involved pending the outcome of the investigation.”
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