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Woman and Three Children Killed in Brooklyn Fire Mother and Three Children Killed in Brooklyn Fire
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Four people were killed and at least five others were injured when a fire tore through a home in Brooklyn in the early hours of Monday. A mother and three children were killed and other members of their family were badly injured when a fire tore through a three-story home in Brooklyn in the early hours of Monday.
The victims were a 3-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy, an 11-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman, the police said. After the flames were put out, the mother, 40, was found dead on the second floor of the single-family home, the authorities said. Nearby were her 3-year-old daughter, 7-year-old son and 11-year-old son.
The fire broke out around 2 a.m. in a home at 1945 East 14th Street. Five others in the home, including the children’s father, were injured. The father was in critical condition, the authorities said, as were two children.
By the time the police arrived, the authorities said, firefighters were battling the blaze. They discovered the four victims. At least one of the children was believed to have escaped by jumping out of a window.
Emergency medical workers took at least five people to nearby hospitals, the police said: three of them to Staten Island University Hospital in critical condition, and two to Maimonides Hospital with minor injuries. The fire broke out around 2 a.m. in a home at 1946 East 14th Street. Neighbors across the street called 911, and firefighters were in front of the home in two minutes and 40 seconds, said Daniel A. Nigro, the New York City fire commissioner.
The authorities said an investigation into the cause of the fire was continuing. The home was engulfed in flames.
“What they were confronted with is fire meeting them at the front door,” he said. “So the units, knowing there were people in the home, pushed in very aggressively.”
Fire marshals are still investigating the cause of the fire, but they suspect the flames started on the first floor and spread to the second floor and then to the attic.
Mr. Nigro said the fire was “not suspicious, but accidental.”
Nine people were in the home: a mother and father, their six children and a cousin.
Five firefighters were also injured, said Francis X. Gribbon, a Fire Department spokesman.
Around 100 firefighters battled the flames and tended to the injured. The fire was put out in about an hour, the authorities said.
Those in critical condition were taken to Staten Island University Hospital, the authorities said. The police said two people were taken to Maimonides Hospital with minor injuries.
Later Monday morning, dozens of firefighters stood in the dark in front of the beige family home, its windows smashed out and charred. Community members threw arms around grieving people and walked them away.
A woman who has lived in the neighborhood for 15 years and gave her name only as Nellie said her daughter, who lives next door, called her at 2:30 a.m. “terrified.” She rushed over and saw a man lay a grown woman down outside until paramedics arrived. The house was ablaze.
“We saw flames coming out,” Nellie said, trembling.