The fire in a residential building in The Bronx (New York) leaves at least 19 fatalities, including nine children.
The fire declared in a residential building in The Bronx (New York) and that leaves at least 19 fatalities, including nine children, is the most serious of those registered in the last 20 years in the United States and the second in this year 2022 that has just begun.
On January 6, another similar serious event took place in the United States, in which twelve people, 8 children and 4 adults, died in the fire that was registered in a building in Philadelphia. Apparently, the event could be caused by one of the child victims when he was playing with a lighter next to a Christmas tree. The building was divided into two houses, in which at least 26 people resided.
This is the list of the main home fires that have occurred in the US since 2002:
October 17, 2003 Six people die and another 15 are injured in the fire of a 35-story skyscraper of the local government in which 2,500 people worked in Chicago, Illinois.
April 3, 2008 Ten people, including seven teenagers and two children, members of the same family, are killed when a fire devastated their two-story single-family home in Brockway, in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
28 december 2014 Six people are killed and 10 injured in the fire at the Wedgwood apartment building, where elderly people lived, in the Castle Hills neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas.
March 21, 2015 Seven brothers, between 5 and 16 years old, members of a family of Orthodox Jews, die in Brooklyn (New York). Only the mother and one of her 15-year-old daughters survived by jumping from a second-story window in Brooklyn’s Midwood neighborhood when an electric hob failed and started a fire that quickly spread through the home.
28 december 2017 Twelve people, including four minors, are killed in the fire in a five-story apartment building in Bronx, New York. The flames were started by a boy who was playing with a kitchen.
26 august 2018 Eight people, six of them children, die in the fire that affected at least two three-story buildings in the Hispanic neighborhood of La Villita, in Chicago.
8 mayo 2019 Six people, four children between the ages of 3 and 11 and two adults, die in a fire registered in an apartment in the New York neighborhood of Harlem.
December 21, 2019 Six people are killed in a small apartment building fire in Las Vegas, Nevada. Apparently it could be due to the use of kitchen burners that were used as heaters as some of the homes did not have heating. (I)
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