'One week they were with us ... now they’re gone.' Hundreds turn out on a frigid afternoon in New York City to mourn 15 of the victims killed in a Bronx apartment building fire. In all, 17 people died in one of the city's deadliest fires in decades.
Many hundreds more huddled outside, peering into the mosque’s windows or watching on big-screen televisions, to pay their respects after New York City’s deadliest fire in three decades.
All of those who lost their lives collapsed and were overcome by smoke while trying to descend the building’s stairwell.Sunday’s mass funeral at the Islamic Cultural Center capped a week of prayers and mourning within a close-knit community hailing from West Africa, most with connections to the small country of Gambia — where four of the victims would be buried, officials said. Eleven of the victims were transported to a cemetery in New Jersey.“This is a sad situation.
Amid the mourning, there was also frustration and anger, as family, friends and neighbors of the dead tried to make sense of the tragedy. Because of the magnitude of the tragedy, funeral organizers insisted on a public funeral to bring attention to the plight of immigrant families across New York City.
New York Attorney General Letitia James vowed to investigate, saying “there were conditions in that building that should have been corrected.”The fire itself was contained to one unit and an adjoining hallway, but investigators said the door to the apartment and a stairway door many floors up had been left open, creating a flue that allowed plumes of black, choking smoke to quickly spread throughout the 19-story building.
The proposals range from requiring that space heaters automatically shut off, to mandating that federally funded apartment projects install self-closing doors on units and stairwells, which would have to be inspected on a monthly basis.
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