A fire at an electric bike repair shop in New York early Tuesday morning killed four and injured five.
Personnel from the New York City Fire Department responded to the three-alarm fire in Manhattan at around 12:15 a.m., with flames already engulfing the first floor containing the e-bike shop.
Initially, six critically injured people were taken from the burnt building. Of those, two men and two women died. The two others, both women, remain in critical condition. Officials have not yet identified the victims, but have disclosed that one man was 71 and one woman was 65. A witness to the inferno was closing up shop at his family’s nearby deli when a customer ran in to warn him about the fire. When he walked outside, the metal gate at the e-bike store was engulfed in flames.Officials pointed out the dangers of having an e-bike store on the first floor of a mixed-use building.
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