NY Daily News – February 27, 2015
by Joseph Stepansky
A man was critically injured when a fire tore through a Lower East Side apartment on Wednesday, authorities said. The man, who was in his 50s, was rushed from the burning apartment on E. 13 St. at Ave. C around 2:50 p.m., a Fire Department spokesman said.
He was taken to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in critical condition.
One smoke-eater was injured, the fire official said.
The fire marshal was determining the cause of the blaze.
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