More than a dozen people were injured in a seven-alarm fire, sparked accidentally by a toaster, in upper Manhattan on Monday, according to the FDNY.

The fire broke out on the second floor of the six-story building at 775 Riverside Dr., near West 156th Street, just before 1:50 p.m. and burned for over five hours before firefighters were able to get it under control, according to fire officials. Smoke alarms were working in the building at the time, the FDNY said.

Seven civilians and eight firefighters suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the blaze, per the FDNY.

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