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At least 19 people, including nine children, have been killed in an apartment fire in New York City, in what the city’s fire commissioner called one of the worst blazes in recent memory

FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said tenants heard the fire alarms go off but waited around 10 minutes before calling the fire department to report the massive apartment fire in Queens Tuesday that ended up injuring 21 people and displacing around 90 families. Making matters worse, he said, the door to the apartment where the fire started was left open allowing...

NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

At least 21 people are hurt as hundreds of firefighters continue to battle an 8-alarm fire in Queens that erupted at an apartment building shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Fire Department of New York City said. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

More than 100 firefighters are battling a 7-alarm fire in Queens that erupted at an apartment building shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Fire Department of New York City said. Ray Villeda has the latest.

At least 21 people are hurt as hundreds of firefighters continue to battle an 8-alarm fire in Queens that erupted at an apartment building shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Fire Department of New York City said.

There’s a mystery in Brooklyn after a huge fire in Fort Greene. When the blaze was extinguished, investigators say they found a body with stab wounds to the neck. Myles Miller reports.

A Worcester, Massachusetts, fire lieutenant died early Wednesday as he and his crew attempted to save a baby and others from a raging fire. Chief Michael Lavoie said in a press conference that Lt. Jason Menard, a father of three, succumbed to his injuries after his “heroic efforts” to save people in the four-alarm fire at 7 Stockholm Street.

Thick plumes of smoke could be seen coming from an unforgiving eight-alarm fire Monday morning as the blaze sent three firefighters to a hospital and consumed several small businesses in Natick, Massachusetts. “It’s overwhelming to see this. I’ve never seen anything like it,” Michael Hickey, Chair of the Natick Board of Selectmen, said during a press conference. “This is the...

More than 100 firefighters and emergency personnel responded to a three-alarm fire that broke out at a commercial building in College Point, Queens, Monday morning, the FDNY says.

Dozens of firefighters battled a fire that broke out at a high-rise in the heart of Manhattan Friday morning.

Friends and family mourned four members of a New Jersey family on Sunday whose bodies were found at their burning mansion.

The New Jersey man charged with killing his brother, sister-in-law and the couple’s two young children, then torching their estate, pleaded not guilty to murder and other crimes at an initial court appearance Friday.

The brother of a man found dead along with his wife and two children inside a burning New Jersey mansion has been charged with murder in their deaths, authorities said Thursday.

Prosecutors have said little about the case since an early news conference at which they called the Colts Neck slayings “targeted.”

The brother of one of the four homicide victims found at a burning New Jersey mansion is due in court on allegations he set fire to his own house.

The brother of one of the four homicide victims found at a burning New Jersey mansion is innocent of setting fire to his own house and of “any other potential charges,” his lawyer said.

The man found dead at a burning mansion in New Jersey was shot in the head, while his wife and children appear to have been stabbed, law enforcement sources tell NBC 4.

The bodies of two adults and two children have been found at a burning New Jersey mansion, one of whom had been shot, officials said Tuesday.