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Thank you for joining me this time of year.
A lot of fire starting homes because of space
heaters, either malfunctioning or not being used properly.
Yesterday in the Bronx, New York apartment
building, 19 people died, including nine children,
after what the fire Commissioner says started
from a malfunctioned space heater.
The fire started in an apartment unit spanning two floors,
the second and third floor of a 19 story building
for some reason, which is still being investigated.
The door to the apartment was allowed to
be left open, allowing the thick black smoke
to spread quickly throughout the building.
Some of the residents trapped in their
apartments broke windows for air and stuffed
wet towels under their doors.
One of the residents of the building said that
fire alarms often went off and was always a
fault alarm and tended to ignore them.
Dozens of people are still in the hospital, many of
them either from smoke inhalation or from heart attacks.
Here's an image of the building.
Low income housing is what this building was used for.
Many of the residents are from
the West African nation of Gambia.
I seem to remember a fire, possibly in New
York years ago where the same thing happened.
The door to the apartment that was on fire,
the door was left open and the escape route.
The stairwell quickly filled with smoke
and people were overcome and died.
Many of the residents didn't worry until they
got text alerts on their cell phone, saying
that there was a fire in the building.
The 120 unit apartment complex was built
in part of a project to build
modern, affordable housing there in the Bronx.
The fire I was thinking of evidently happened
in 2017 that fire 13 people died in
an apartment building also in the Bronx.
Because of that fire, new state laws were put
in that required that all doors to all apartments
have self closing doors automatically close on their own.
So now they're investigating if they had those types of
devices on the door and if it was working properly
because evidently this apartment door was left open, allowing all
the smoke to go throughout the entire building.
As of right now, 44 people were injured
and 13 of those in critical condition.
Many of the people broke out the windows trying
to get air, and there were images of people
being rescued and children being brought down the ladders.
This one here is of a baby that was rescued.
Tenisha ash took videos of the children being rescued.
Evidently, 40% of all home fires,
40% are started by space heaters.
You are not supposed to run space heaters.
When you're sleeping at night, you're supposed
to have at least 3ft of space
between furniture or clothing, anything combustible.
They're supposed to be level and
on hard, non flammable surfaces.
Well, non flammable surfaces are often
hard when everything is carpeted.
Nowadays, for young children, you probably shouldn't even
have a space heater in their bedroom.
Because often they toss extra pillows or stuffies off their
beds and they could land up against the heaters.
But if they are turned off at night, when people
are sleeping, that's probably the best thing to do.
Sending prayers.
Yeah, definitely.
Send those prayers to those poor people.
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