Six Injured in Fire at Bronx (NY) Housing Complex

FDNY (Rose Abuin/New York Daily News)

Colin Mixson, Kerry Burke – New York Daily News

Six people were injured in a fire that erupted Monday inside a Bronx housing development.

The fire broke out in a fifth-floor apartment inside a Morris Ave. building near E. 140th St. located within the Patterson Houses in Mott Haven shortly after 9 p.m., firefighters said.

Medics rushed two patients to Lincoln Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to an FDNY spokesman.

Four other patients were treated at the scene, but declined further medical attention.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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