HEARTBREAKING TRAGEDY
UNFOLDING THIS HOUR IN THE
BRONX, NEW YORK CITY.
OFFICIALS SAY IT WAS 19 BE
ABLE HAVE BEEN KILLED
INCLUDING NINE CHILDREN.
WHAT IS NEW YORK CITY’S WORST
OF FIRE AND OVER THREE
DECADES.
THE FIVE ALARM FIRE STARTED A
HIGH-RISE BUILDING IN THE
BRONX AT ABOUT 11:00 A.M. THIS
MORNING BRIGHT FIRE CREWS WERE
SEEN MAKING HARROWING
RESCUES.
PULLING BABIES AND PETS OUT OF
WINDOWS WHILE SMOKE AND FLAMES
POURED OUT OF THAT BUILDING.
WE ARE TOLD THE DEAD WERE
FOUND IN STAIRWAYS THROUGHOUT
THE BUILDING, OVERCOME BY
SMOKE INHALATION.
FIREFIGHTERS SAY AT LEAST 32
PEOPLE NOW HAVE QUOTE
LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES.
THIS IS A NEW HOUR OF FOX TO
LIVE HELLO EVERYONE.
KIRK’S MORE THAN 200
FIREFIGHTERS RESPONDED TO THE
SCENE WITHIN A MATTER OF
MINUTES.
CREWS SAY ICY CONDITIONS MADE
IT DIFFICULT TO PUT OUT THE
FLAMES.
THEY WERE SAYING THE FIRE WAS
CONTAINED TO THE SECOND AND
THIRD FLOORS BUT THAT THE
SMOKE ACCENTED TO THE TOP OF
THE 19 STORY BUILDING.
THIS TRAGEDY COMES JUST DAYS
AFTER A ROADHOUSE FIRE KILLED
15 PEOPLE IN PHILADELPHIA.
ALEXIS MCADAMS IS ALIVE IN THE
BRONX NOW WITH THE VERY
LATEST, ALEXIS.
>> THIS IS ABSOLUTE
HEARTBREAKING HERE BUT WE
TALKING TO NEIGHBORS AND
PEOPLE OF THE BRONX APARTMENT
BUILDING BEHIND ME SAID THEY
COULD NOT SEE IN FRONT OF THEM
BECAUSE THE SMOKE WAS SO
HEAVY.
AS NEW NUMBERS COMING IN
SAYING AT LEAST 19 DEAD AND
THE APARTMENT FIRE INCLUDING
SEVERAL CHILDREN STILL WORKING
TO HOW MANY CHILDREN AT THIS
TIME WE ARE GETTING
CONFLICTING REPORTS IN HER
STEP OUT OF THE WAY YOU CAN
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THIS
BUILDING TO FORGET TO SOME OF
THE SCENE OF VIDEO IS A FIVE
ALARM FIRE THAT BROKE OUT.
NEIGHBORS AND TELLING ME THEY
WATCHED IN HORROR AS PEOPLE ON
THE FIREFIGHTERS HAD TO CARRY
OUT SMALL CHILDREN AND THAT
BURNING BUILDING.
THEY DID EVERYTHING THEY
COULD, THOSE OF FIREFIGHTERS
TO SAVE AS MANY PEOPLE AS
POSSIBLE PETS GET THE DATA
RIGHT NOW THE FIVE ALARM FIRE
BREAKING OUT INTO THE 19 STORY
APARTMENT BUILDING BUT THAT’S
EAST 181st STREET IN THE
BRONX.
THE BUILDING’S FULL OF FAMILY
AND RESIDENTS AS A FAMILY TOUR
THROUGH.
MORE THAN 60 PEOPLE INJURED AT
THIS TIME AT LEAST 30 OF THOSE
PEOPLE HAVE LIFE-THREATENING
INJURIES THIS MORNING DOZENS
CALLING 911 FOR HELP INSIGHT
AT THAT BUILDING.
THAT’S AT LEAST INTO ACTION
IMMEDIATELY.
CREWS SAY SEVERAL FLOORS ARE
FULL OF HEAVY BLACK SMOKE
SPREADING PROPERLY BETWEEN THE
SECOND AND THIRD FLOORS.
PEOPLE FOUND ALL OVER THE
BUILDING SUFFERING FROM SEVERE
SMOKE INHALATION HEART AND
RESPIRATORY RESPIRATORS THE
COMMISSIONER TALK ABOUT THE
TRAGEDY LISTEN.
>> WHAT I DO KNOW AND WE HAVE
STRESSED THIS OVER AND OVER
THE DOOR TO THAT APARTMENT WAS
LEFT OPEN CAUSING THE FIRE TO
SPREAD AND THE SMOKE TO SPREAD
WHICH IS ALWAYS A PROBLEM FOR
US.
AS WE SEE HERE BY THE BROKEN
WINDOWS THROUGHOUT THE
BUILDING, THIS FIRE TOOK ITS
TOLL ON OUR CITY.
>> NOW MAYOR ERIC ADAMS IS OUT
AT THE SCENE HE SPEAKING AS A
FAMILY SEARCH FOR THEIR LOVED
ONES TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT HOSPITAL THEY WERE TAKEN TOO.
HOSPITAL THEY WERE TAKEN TOO.
THE MAYOR HEARTBROKEN, LISTEN.
>> THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST
FIRES WE HAVE WITNESSED.
ONCE AGAIN AT LEAST 19 PEOPLE
DEAD, SOME OF THEM WERE
CHILDREN WORKING TO GET
EXACTLY HOW MANY CHILDREN WERE
INVOLVED.
TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO WERE
INSIDE OF THE APARTMENT
BUILDING ARTHEL AND ERIC WE TO
HEAR JUST HOW BRUTAL THIS WAS
PAID 10:00 A.M. ON A SUNDAY
MORNING PEOPLE WERE RELAXING
ALL THE SADNESS OR JUST SMELL
SMOKE AND WITHIN MOMENTS THEY
COULD NOT SEE ANYTHING IN
THEIR UNITS.
ONE OF THE MOMENTS ON THE 12th
FLOOR THE BUILDING SHE WAS
ABLE TO GET OUT SO IT’S HER
YOUNG DAUGHTER.
SHE CREDITS THE FAST ACTION
WILL SEND IT BACK TO BREAK.
>> ERIC, I CAN SEE THERE ARE
PEOPLE THERE WORKING.
OF COURSE I’M SURE SOME OF THE
NEIGHBORS ARE THERE.
HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE YET TO
TALK WITH ANY OF THE NEIGHBORS
WHO ARE WONDERING ABOUT
FRIENDS INSIDE THE BUILDING?
OR PERHAPS RELATIVES WHO HAVE
ARRIVED ON SCENE BECAUSE MAYBE
THEY HAVE SOME FAMILY MEMBERS
INSIDE?
WHAT IS IT LIKE AROUND YOU
RIGHT NOW WITH NEIGHBORS?
>> CHAOTIC.
THESE POOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU
MENTION ARE ONE OF THEIR
FAMILY MEMBERS ARE OKAY.
THERE NEIGHBORS ARE LIKE THEIR
FAMILY MEMBERS ARE OKAY
PREHEARING THERE IS KIDS
INVOLVED, SO MANY OF THESE
RESIDENTS ARE KEY PEOPLE
INJURED AT HUNDREDS OF HAD TO
BE EVACUATED PAID RIGHT NOW
STILL SO EARLY THEY’RE TRYING
TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY SOME OF
THOSE DETAILS AND FIND OUT IF
THERE NEIGHBORS AND FAMILY
MEMBERS ARE OKAY.
ARTHEL: I HEAR PEOPLE AROUND
YOU I DON’T KNOW IF YOUR ABLE
TO SHOW US OTHER THAN WHAT IS
BEHIND YOU.
CAN YOU HAVE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHER
TURN THE CAMERA AROUND?
>> ARE SOME CREWS RIGHT HERE
WE CAN SHOW THAT THIS IS ONE
OF THE WOMEN I JUST TALKED A
FEW MOMENTS AGO SHE IS GETTING
INTERVIEWED BY THE MEDIA AND
NOW THEY’RE TRYING TO DO SOME
STAGING.
IF WE WALK A LITTLE CLOSER
HERE YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE
SOME CREWS GOING INTO THE TWIN
PEAKS NORTHWEST APARTMENT
BUILDING.
WE TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THIS
BUILDING, ARTHEL, YOU CAN SEE
HOW BIG THIS BLAZE WAS BURIED
19 SOURCES APARTMENT IS ALL OF
THOSE WINDOWS ARE BROKEN AS WE
GO UP AND UP.
THE WITNESS IN FLOORS BY THE
FIRE CREWS HAD TO BREAK THE
GLASS TO TAKE AS MANY PEOPLE
OUT AS POSSIBLE.
IN HEARING FROM THESE PEOPLE
SAYING THEY WATCHED IN HORROR
AS THEY SAW THEIR FAMILY
MEMBERS AND SETTLEMENT OF
THEIR LOVED ONES TAKEN AWAY.
THEIR SELMA PROCESS OF TRYING
TO FIGURE OUT IF THEY ARE OKAY
AND WHAT HOSPITAL THEY WENT
TOO.
>> ALRIGHT ALEXIS MCADAMS
MCADAMS THERE ON SCENE IN THE