3 children among victims in New York City house fire
NEW YORK — A fast-moving fire killed five people, including three children, as flames surged through a New York City home on a sunny spring afternoon, leaving authorities to scour for clues about what sparked the deadly blaze.
The fire broke out Sunday afternoon, on a street full of single-family homes in the middle class neighbourhood of Queens Village, a neighbourhood near Belmont Park, which hosts the Belmont Stakes, the final leg in horse racing’s Triple Crown. Television news footage showed flames chewing through the roof of the two-story home and roaring in upstairs rooms of the house as smoke poured from it.
“This is a devastation of a family,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said, speaking at the scene of the four-alarm fire. He said it was “a fire that moved very, very quickly, and the loss was horrendous.”
“There’s a lot we need to know about what happened here,” the Democrat added.