19 dead, including 9 children, in New York City apartment fire

Emergency personnel work at the scene of a fatal fire at an apartment building in the Bronx on Jan. 9, 2022, in New York City. | Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

01/09/2022 06:22 PM EST

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NEW YORK — A malfunctioning space heater sparked a fire that filled a Bronx apartment building with thick smoke, killing 19 people including nine children Sunday in New York City’s deadliest fire in three decades.

Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said the fire “started in a malfunctioning electric space heater” in an apartment unit spanning the second and third floors of the 19-story

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