Ana Ramos\u2019 apartment in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx was destroyed by fire on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything\u2019s destroyed, there\u2019s a lot of smoke, a lot of water, the whole floor is very burnt and damaged,\u201d she told NY1. \u201cI live there with my siblings, my dad and my two small children.\u201d<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
The FDNY received the first call about a fire at a Kingsbridge apartment building just before 3 p.m.
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The fire injured 15 people, many of them children, according to the FDNY
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The victims\u00a0were transported to area hospitals with minor injuries
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The cause of the fire is still under investigation<\/p>\n
She said the fire started on the third floor and expanded from there.<\/p>\n
The FDNY received the first call about the fire just before 3 p.m. and had it under control in about an hour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re still waiting here outside, waiting to see if they can tell us something about what they\u2019re going to do, if they\u2019re going to put us somewhere. With the cold, there\u2019s a lot of people with illnesses, my daughter suffers from asthma, and my dad is a disabled person. Look at how my hands are full of smoke. Everything of ours got ruined, our clothes, our beds, everything\u2019s ruined,\u201d Ramos said.<\/p>\n
The fire injured 15 people, many of them children, according to the FDNY. They were transported to area hospitals with minor injuries.<\/p>\n
Residents said one apartment is a day care.<\/p>\n
Abdulai Bah, the store manager of Unique Thrift Store across the street, said he helped the day care children after the blaze.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll I know is that the children, all of them are fine and they all came to the store,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Farida Ruemmely, who also lives in the building, said her apartment has some water damage but is otherwise O.K.<\/p>\n
She said she is thinking of those affected.<\/p>\n
\u201cI pray they are O.K., that everybody are O.K., and I\u2019m sad to see the apartment like that, I\u2019m very sad, and it\u2019s cold so its not easy to be outside so I am going to pray for them tonight,\u201d Ruemmely told NY1. \u201cThank God my daughter was outside. I just \u2014 \u00a0very worried about my apartment, especially for the animals.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The Red Cross is on the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ana Ramos\u2019 apartment in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx was destroyed by fire on Tuesday afternoon. \u201cEverything\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[387,25,128,3691,9,24,12,63,308,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":["post-167265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-emma-barnett","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}