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Pointed the origin of the blaze to a duplex apartment on the second and third floors of the build jeff gordon the door to the apartment was left open allowing the fire to spread and smoke to billow up throughout the building. the fire marshals on hand investigating this cause along with the commissioner said he does not believe investigators will deem the source suspicious. again that community reeling right now. as fire marshals and the fdny on the scene trying to make as many rescues as possib...

Door was critical to allowing for the fire to spread. >> in terms of the response we saw from the fdny, the speed in which they did things i think the courageous nature by which they did things, explain what a firefighter is dealing with when they enter a fire like this, particularly with the scale of smoke inhalation happening throughout the building. >> well the common strategy is obviously to try to locate and confine the fire, that was done relatively quickly, and then get firefighters not o...

They had on decca. it is near east 181st street in the cities bronx. that building was full of families, kids and residents as they fire tore through floor by floor. more than 60 people were injured at least 30 people have life-threatening injuries. for take a look at some of the video weve gathered throughout the day of the aftermath of this blaze. this morning dozens calling 91 for help, sending at least 200 fdny firefighters out into action by those firefighters going up on the ladders, break...

Bringing in former fire chief downey, crews were down i think in three minutes first response, still, 19 people dead, 13 others with life-threatening injuries. what does it tell you about the nature of this fire and the smoke that it caused? >> well, i mean clearly it was a well-i well-involved apartment, a lot of fire when the crews arrived, you know, based on the time of year, the building is sealed up, trying to keep the heat in and keep the residents warm and so the smoke, theres nowhere for...

Youre live in the cnn newsroom. im jim acosta. a devastating fire that killed 19 people, including nine children, in a massive fire in the bronx. fire officials do know how it started. they were describing the scene unprecedented with victims on every floor of the building. were talking 19 stories. in addition to those killed, more than a dozen others remain hospitalized and life-threatening conditions. last hour we got an update from the new york city fire commissioner and the mayor of new york...

Population, she knows many of the residents that came from gambia and we want to make sure we are sensitive to the cultural needs in the office is going to coordinate to make sure that we respect the burials rights of the muslim communities as well as others. our message is clear today during a tragedy we are going to be here for each other it is more to be discovered, the fdny is doing an investigation commissioner will update us on the latest. it appears as though stemming from a space heater ...

Actually fire individuals, they fined -- they want to fine businesses or fire individuals that are not vaccinated and still seeing people test positive among the vaccinated population, which is leading to staffing shortages. what were seeing, fdny, nypd, ems and the staten island ferry running short-staffed. were now going to see that pushed on to the private sector. were hoping the new mayor will reevaluate this situation and at minimum allow people to have the testing option. i believe that co...

The unification of this city come into this family and this community to let you know we are here and were going to be here for you. thank you very much. >> and youve been listening to an update from the mayor of new york, eric adams, the new york governor, new york senator chuck schumer and other officials on the deadly fire that killed 19 people including nine children in the deadliest fire in new york city in some 30 years. and with me now is the former fdny commissioner thomas von essen. com...

Up, especially if theyre unconscious, so it will take 2 to 3, maybe 4 firefighters to carry one victim down and you just keep pushing in with more firefighters, the fdny is a resource-rich organization, but im sure those initial arriving crews were still spent with the amount of effort they had to exert to remove those victims within those stairwells. >> yeah, a slow moving process as heroic as the efforts were. thank you for sharing expertise, i appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> wel...

>> are you confident in the response time? i know this fire started around 11:00 a.m. at what time did the fdny show up at this building? >> i am extremely confident. the team on the scene and the police department that responded. we have an excellent system in place to get our apparatus in as fast a time as possible and extremely encouraged by what i saw today. the firefighters ran out of oxygen tanks. the oxygen from the tanks and pushed through to rescue and save lives and extremely proud of ...