A fire in a New York City home has killed five people, including three children, leaving authorities to scour for clues about what sparked the deadly flames.
The fire broke out Sunday afternoon on a street in the middle class neighbourhood of Queens Village.
Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said witnesses saw someone tumble from a two-story window as smoke billowed.
Firefighters struggled to reach some of the victims who were as high up as the attic and first-responders carried a limp child from the wreckage.
“It was the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” neighbour Foster McPhee, 67, told the New York Post. “The guy who was carrying the baby out, you could just see the stress on his face. I’m just emotional about it because I’m a grandfather and I have kids, too.”
Nigro said the victims ranged in age from two to 21, plus an older adult.
The fire is the deadliest in the nation’s biggest city since March 2015, when a house fire in Brooklyn started by a hot plate killed seven children, all siblings.
Source: 3 kids die in New York City house fire | Perth Now
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