NEW YORK (AP) — Two children died, and two others were in critical condition, after a fire swept through a home in New York City just days before Christmas.
Firefighters arrived at the home on Staten Island just after 10 a.m. Friday and extinguished the fire in about an hour, Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said.
“Tragically, we lost two young children here today and two others are in critical condition in hospital,” she said, adding that two teenagers and a firefighter suffered minor injuries.
Authorities did not immediately give a cause for the fire.
“The entire second floor was ablaze. Once they started moving in the hose line, they quickly put out the fire. And we found the victims all unconscious and had to be removed,” said FDNY division chief John Hodgens.
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