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Bronx apartment fire kills 19, including 9 children

NEW YORK (AP) — Rancid black smoke filling hallways, rising from floor to floor. People tripping and falling as they rushed down darkened stairwells, unable to see. Panic turning to sorrow, as residents who escaped a fire at a high-rise Bronx apartment building learned of neighbors who did not survive.

"I just ran down the steps as much as I could but people [were] falling all over me, screaming."

Bronx apartment fire kills 19, including 9 children

Rancid black smoke filling hallways, rising from floor to floor. People tripping and falling as they rushed down darkened stairwells, unable to see. Panic...

"I just ran down the steps as much as I could but people [were] falling all over me, screaming."

"I just ran down the steps as much as I could but people [were] falling all over me, screaming."

"I just ran down the steps as much as I could but people [were] falling all over me, screaming."

Stories of panic, escape and grief have emerged after a fire in a New York City apartment building killed 19 people, nine of them children.

"I just ran down the steps as much as I could but people [were] falling all over me, screaming."