{"id":171729,"date":"2026-03-23T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/171729\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:18:09","slug":"woman-62-killed-in-nyc-apartment-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/171729\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 62, killed in NYC apartment fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A woman was killed after a fire broke out in a Harlem apartment building on Sunday afternoon, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Police and fire officials were called to the six-story building on West 140th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Frederick Douglass Boulevard just after 4:30 p.m., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n

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A 62-year-old woman was killed after a fire broke out in a Harlem apartment building on Sunday afternoon. William C Lopez\/New York Post<\/p>\n

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Cops and fire marshals were at the scene on Sunday. William C Lopez\/New York Post<\/p>\n

An unidentified 62-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS, cops said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe smoke was really dark, really heavy coming out the window. When you see that many firetrucks, you know you\u2019ve got a serious fire on your hands. It\u2019s just a terrible tragedy that there had to be a victim,\u201d witness Nyla Redding , 28, told The Post.<\/p>\n

Roughly 80 fire and EMS personnel worked to battle the blaze, PIX 11 reported. <\/a><\/p>\n

The 1-alarm fire was later extinguished over an hour later, authorities added.<\/p>\n

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A teddy bear seen on top of a car in front of the building where the fire took place. William C Lopez\/New York Post<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looked really bad for a minute there \u2014 but I didn\u2019t find out until later that someone had died,\u201d said 40-year-old witness Anthony March.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel terrible for her, terrible for her family. One minute you\u2019re enjoying a beautiful Sunday, the next you\u2019re gone. And such a terrible way to go,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

A charred teddy bear was spotted on the roof of an SUV in front of the building where the flames broke out.<\/p>\n

The cause of the inferno is under investigation by the FDNY Fire Marshals\u2019 office.<\/p>\n

The FDNY did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was killed after a fire broke out in a Harlem apartment building on Sunday afternoon, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[70073,7352,25923,12069,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-171729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-adam-clayton-powell-jr","tag-apartment-building","tag-fire-marshals","tag-fire-officials","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171729","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=171729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}