Row House Fire in Brooklyn Kills 6 People and Injures 9

A fire barreled through a multifamily row house in New York early Thursday, killing six people and injuring nine others, including some firefighters and police officers, the city’s fire department said.

More than 200 first responders descended on the two-story building in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood, where Kevin Woods, the department’s chief of fire operations, said they were met with “fire on every floor.”

The severely charred building had “fire blowing out every window, meeting us at the front door,” he said at a news conference. Fire marshals were still investigating what caused the blaze…

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