One particular person died and three firefighters had been injured in a constructing fireplace Saturday night on Roosevelt Island.
Firefighters rushed to the scene of the blaze at a residential residence constructing round 6:04 p.m. close to Important St. and River Rd. the place one particular person was pronounced lifeless, the FDNY mentioned.
“Our district is once more mourning the lack of certainly one of our neighbors from a fireplace, this time at 560 Important Road on Roosevelt Island. Their household is in my ideas tonight, as are those that had been hospitalized,” Council member Julie Menin mentioned on X.
EMS transported the three smoke eaters to native hospitals the place they had been handled for reasonable accidents.
The fireplace was introduced beneath management round 7:39 p.m. The reason for the flames was nonetheless beneath investigation by fireplace marshals.
The deadly fireplace comes after an 86-year-old girl died in a fireplace in her Queens sixth-floor residence Saturday morning simply after 2:15 a.m. on twelfth St. close to forty first Ave. at NYCHA’s Queensbridge South Homes.
EMS rushed the girl to Mount Sinai Queens hospital, the place she died a short while later. Her title was not instantly disclosed.
The Roosevelt Island fatality was the fifth fire-related loss of life in New York Metropolis prior to now week.
