Investigators have found the source of last week’s devastating fire that shook a Manhattan community after three people died when flames quickly spread through the only stairwell of an apartment building in Inwood.
The FDNY declared the fire to be “incendiary,” ignited after someone discarded a lit cigarette into cardboard boxes. A law enforcement source said the man responsible for the fire has turned himself in and is expected to be charged with three counts of criminally negligent homicide.
Family members have confirmed that two of the victims trapped in the blaze were a mother and daughter, identified as 49-year-old fashion journalist Yolaine Díaz, and her 73-year-old mother, Ana Mirtha Lantigua…