NY Daily News – August 24, 2015
by Caitlin Nolan
Two people were killed when fire tore through a Queens home Sunday, police said. The deaths came just hours after nearly two dozen people — many of them firefighters — were injured in a Manhattan blaze, officials said.
The flames in Far Rockaway ignited on the first floor of a house on Cornaga Ave. near Beach Channel Dr. about 1 p.m., officials said.
Emergency responders discovered two people unconscious inside the home, but they could not be saved, police sources said.
Earlier in the day, 22 people were injured, including 10 firefighters, when a second-alarm fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in Harlem, FDNY officials said.
The blaze tore through the 16th and 17th floors of 3333 Broadway near W. 133rd St., an apartment complex that is part of the Riverside Park Community, at 10:54 a.m., authorities said.
Firefighters battled the blaze until it was placed under control at 12 p.m., an FDNY spokesman said.
Ten smoke-eaters sustained minor injuries and two adults had serious but not life-threatening injuries, officials said.
Six adults and four children were being treated for minor injuries, authorities said.
The victims were taken to area hospitals including Harlem Hospital Center, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, officials said.
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