JUST IN: Dozens of people are seriously injured following a major fire in the Bronx.
About 200 members of the New York City Fire Department were on scene of the fire at a 19-story apartment building at 333 East 181st Street. The fire began a little before 11 a.m. and has been"knocked down," the FDNY said.The fire started in a duplex apartment on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the building, Nigro said. The door to the apartment was left open, and smoke then spread to every floor of the building, he said.
Firefighters were met by"very heavy smoke, very heavy fire" in the hallways.FDNY responded to a 5-alarm fire in the Bronx on Sunday.Victims were found in stairways on every floor of the building, many in cardiac arrest, in what Nigro said could be an unprecedented loss of life. The injuries were predominantly from smoke inhalation, he said. The FDNY told CNN 54 people were injured.
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