deadly fire in the Bronx

In New York, in the Bronx (United States), thick smoke escaped from the second floor of a building, Sunday, January 9, making the intervention of firefighters extremely difficult. Very quickly, the whole building was engulfed in flames, trapping dozens of residents. At the window a woman was waving in despair. A little further down, it’s a baby that has been extracted. On the ground, it was panic, people were fleeing. “There were many children crying for help“, Told Dilany Rodriguez, a resident of the building.

Still shocked, the inhabitants who were able to escape from this 19-story tower tell. “We were suffocating. It took me at least 30-35 minutes to reach the hallway, where I was able to descend six floors“Says Mikael Joseph. It is one of the worst fires in recent New York history. In this popular area of ​​the Bronx, buildings are rarely up to standard. Three years ago, a violent fire had ravaged a building, causing a dozen victims.