deadly fire

Two sisters died in a Southampton vacation rental fire.

Erica Byfield reports.

A 61-year-old man was found dead in an illegal cellar apartment after a fire ripped through a multi-family Queens home Wednesday morning, officials said. FDNY responded to a fire around 4:30 a.m. at a residence on Befell Street in the Jamaica section of Queens. Firefighters fought heavy smoke to get into the cellar. Once there, they found and removed the…

Romney Smith reports.

Tracie Strahan reports.

A man died after a fire at a multi-family home in Watertown late Saturday night. Emergency crews were called to a home on Main Street in the Oakville section of town shortly before midnight after getting a report of a structure fire. Police said the home was a multi-family home with three levels. When crews arrived, they said they found…

Smoke filled the air as flames tore through at least two Gloucester County, New Jersey, homes early Thursday leaving several people hurt and one person unaccounted for.

The deadly fire that killed 17 people in New York City on Sunday started with a malfunctioning electric space heater — with the tragedy becoming the deadliest fire the city has experienced in the past three decades. Investigators determined that the electric space heater, plugged in to give extra heat on a cold morning, malfunctioned and started the fire in the 19-story building...

The city said that just hours after the fire that left 19 people dead and more than 60 people hurt, all the survivors have a warm place to sleep for the night, as an outpouring of support for the victims has already come in. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

At least 12 people, including eight children, died early Wednesday when a quick-moving fire tore through a Philadelphia rowhome, crowded with 26 people in two apartments owned by the city’s public housing authority.

A neighbor raced to rescue residents stuck in a burning home in Cranford, New Jersey. Brian Thompson reports.

A raging house fire in Cranford, New Jersey claimed the life of one person and injured another, local authorities said. Chopper 4 captured images of the intense scene that unfolded on Beach Street near West End Place — prompting several area fire departments to spring into action. One woman died and two other people who were inside had to be…

One person was killed and another injured in a fire that ravaged a house in Cranford, New Jersey. Tracie Strahan reports.

A heartbreaking day in Harlem after a fire fire killed two people early Friday morning .NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A woman and a 9-month-old baby died Friday in an early morning fire in New Jersey that also injured three others. The fire started just after 3:30 a.m. in the two-and-a-half-story, wood-frame duplex on Woodlawn Avenue, causing a partial roof collapse, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said. Firefighters found the baby girl and a woman in her 40s dead...

Nearly 24 hours after a firefighter went missing in a suburban New York assisted living home fire, his body has been found. Rockland County volunteer firefighter Jared Lloyd was the second casualty in the blaze that gutted the Evergreen Court Home for Adults in Spring Valley early Tuesday, according to Rabbi Yisroel Kahan of the county’s Human Rights Commission....

One resident is dead and one firefighter is missing after a fire tore through a nursing home in Spring Valley. Tracie Strahan and Phil Lipof have the latest.

A one-year-old child died in a housefire in Long Island this morning whilst the other eight family members survived, Greg Cergol reports

A toddler was killed and three people were injured in a tragic early morning house fire in Suffolk County which broke out while the family was fast asleep. The inferno broke out at around 3 a.m. Wednesday in a house located in Gordon Heights on Long Island, where nine relatives, including extended family members, were staying. Twenty-three-month-old Majesty Gerald was…

A little girl, not even 2 years old, was tragically killed in a Long Island house fire. Meanwhile, another 4-year-old girl in the house is being described as a heroine after alerting family members of the fire. Greg Cergol reports.