{"id":42086,"date":"2022-01-10T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T08:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=42086"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T08:23:23","slug":"at-least-19-dead-in-new-york-city-apartment-fire-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/01\/10\/at-least-19-dead-in-new-york-city-apartment-fire-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 19 dead in New York City apartment fire: mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At least 19 people have died and dozens are injured after a fire tore through a high-rise apartment building in the New York borough of the Bronx, Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;US media reported that several children were among the dead,&#8221; reported AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We know that we have 19 people who are confirmed dead, as well as several others in critical condition,&#8221; Adams, who has been mayor for barely over a week, told CNN, adding that 63 people had been injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The injured were taken to five hospitals; many suffered from cardiac and respiratory arrest, the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 200 firefighters responded to the blaze, which broke out mid-morning on the second and third floors of a 19-story building on East 181st Street, several blocks west of the Bronx Zoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographs and video posted on social media showed flames and thick black smoke billowing out of a third-story window of the brick building as firefighters operated on a nearby ladder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The cause of the fire was not immediately clear,&#8221; added AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 19 people have died and dozens are injured after a fire tore through a high-rise apartment building in the New York borough of the Bronx, Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday. &#8220;US media reported that several children were among the dead,&#8221; reported AFP. &#8220;We know that we have 19 people who are confirmed dead, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42088,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42086\/revisions\/42088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}