Tuesday, December 30, 2025 9:52AM
ALLERTON, The Bronx (WABC) — One man is dead after an apartment fire broke out in the Allerton section of the Bronx Tuesday morning.
Firefighters got numerous calls for people trapped in their apartments by smoke at the city-run Eastchester Gardens just before 3:15 a.m.
12 units with 60 fire and EMS personnel arrived on scene. Fire crews were met by heavy smoke and fire streaming out of an apartment window.
An unidentified man was found in the rear of a fourth-floor apartment and pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of the fire is under investigation by fire marshals.
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