Post by Prosay on Dec 29, 2017 10:51:34 GMT -5
I guess I was in the ballpark with the cause.....something to do with gas:
nypost.com
Mayor: Deadly Bronx fire likely sparked by child playing with stove
By Yoav Gonen and Natalie Musumeci
1-2 minutes
The city’s deadliest inferno in more than a quarter-century was likely sparked by a young child playing with a stove in a first-floor unit, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday.
“What we think at this point is unfortunately it emanated from an accident — a young child playing with a stove on the first floor,” de Blasio said on WNYC Radio
“It spread rapidly upward … accidental from everything we can see,” the mayor said.
The fast-moving five-alarm Bronx blaze, which killed 12, including children, quickly spread to the top floor of the Prospect Avenue building in the Belmont section of the borough Thursday night.
City records revealed that the building had at least one open violation involving a defective carbon monoxide detector, and a faulty smoke detector in an apartment on its first floor.
But de Blasio said it appears “there was nothing problematic about the building that contributed to this tragedy.”
The mayor added: “The reminder is be very, very careful with your children anywhere near a source of fire … keep them away and create as many barriers as possible.”
nypost.com
Mayor: Deadly Bronx fire likely sparked by child playing with stove
By Yoav Gonen and Natalie Musumeci
1-2 minutes
The city’s deadliest inferno in more than a quarter-century was likely sparked by a young child playing with a stove in a first-floor unit, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday.
“What we think at this point is unfortunately it emanated from an accident — a young child playing with a stove on the first floor,” de Blasio said on WNYC Radio
“It spread rapidly upward … accidental from everything we can see,” the mayor said.
The fast-moving five-alarm Bronx blaze, which killed 12, including children, quickly spread to the top floor of the Prospect Avenue building in the Belmont section of the borough Thursday night.
City records revealed that the building had at least one open violation involving a defective carbon monoxide detector, and a faulty smoke detector in an apartment on its first floor.
But de Blasio said it appears “there was nothing problematic about the building that contributed to this tragedy.”
The mayor added: “The reminder is be very, very careful with your children anywhere near a source of fire … keep them away and create as many barriers as possible.”