At least 12 people were killed in a blaze at a Bronx apartment building on Thursday night in what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called the city’s worst fire tragedy in a quarter-century.The dead included four children: a 1-year-old girl, a 2-year-old girl, a 7-year-old girl and an unidentified boy.
Four other people were critically injured when the fire broke out on the first floor of the five-story building shortly before 7 p.m. ET.
Firefighters rescued at least 12 people with first responders dealing with temperatures in the teens and wind making it feel like the single digits, NBC New York reported.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Many questions remained in the immediate aftermath of the blaze, including how the fire spread so quickly in a brick building that was built after catastrophic fires at the turn of the 20th century ushered in an era of tougher enforcement of fire codes.
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