Detectives in new York believe that a fire in the Bronxthat took the lives of 12 people, could be caused by a child playing with the stove.
About this in his Twitter wrote the press Secretary of the mayor bill de Blasio, Eric Phillips. He noted that small child playing with a stove in the apartment on the first floor, could become the perpetrator of the deadliest fire in a quarter century.
Mayor: cause of fire appears to be a small child playing with a stove in a first-floor apartment. https://t.co/ettcMkS2wu
— Eric Phillips (@EricFPhillips) December 29, 2017
The fire started in the evening of December 28 and quickly became one of the deadliest in modern history, new York.
«This tragedy, without a doubt, historic in magnitude,» said the fire Commissioner of the city Daniel Nigro. «Our hearts are now with every family who lost a loved one.»
At the moment we know about the 12 victims range in age from 1 to 63 years. At least 4 of the dead were children, three of whom less than 10 years.