19 dead, including 9 children, in NYC apartment fire | AP News
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NEW YORK (AP) — At least 19 people, including nine children, died in a fire Sunday at a Bronx apartment building, the deadliest blaze in New York City in more than three decades. Stefan Ringel, a senior adviser to Mayor Eric Adams, confirmed the death toll.

We won't get together and get some damn sprinklers installed in any old apartments because of this. There won't even be any Grenfell moments, nothing like that in this country. Just a few moments to shake our heads at this until the next tragedy shows up to make us forget about this one.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    One man rescued by firefighters said he’d become numb to fire alarms because of frequent false alarms.

    This is a big thing too. Two apartments ago I was in a hundred-year-old building where each unit was owned by a different landlord and no one seemed to be responsible for the building itself and the fire alarm went off all the time because there was a sensor box that water dripped into whenever there was precipitation or snow melt. I def would've died if there was ever a real fire because I was pretty much trained to ignore it.

    In all, more than five dozen people were hurt.

    I feel like "five dozen" is intentionally misleading, because it sounds like way less than "60".