19 Injured in 5-Alarm Blaze at New Dorp Apartment Building, FDNY Says

The fire started on the fourth floor of the six-story Tysens Park Apartments building at 255 Mill Road at about 4:10 a.m. then spread to the fifth and sixth floors, fire officials said.

It took 198 firefighters until 6:03 a.m. to bring the flames under control, the FDNY said.

The FDNY ruled the fire was accidental and caused by an unattended candle, the agency tweeted on Sunday.

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