One person has died and nine other people were injured after a residential fire broke out in the Belmont section of The Bronx in the early hours of Thursday, March 26, FDNY officials said.
The department spokesperson said they received a 911 call at 5.30 a.m. for a report of a fire on the top floor and in the cockloft of a 5-story, non fireproof, multiple dwelling located at 505 East 184th Street between Bassford Avenue and Bathgath Avenue.
They said a second alarm was raised at 5.37 a.m., and units arrived in around 4 minutes. They said a third alarm was raised at 5.46 a.m., a fourth alarm at 6.17 a.m. and a fifth alarm at 7.24 a.m. and that 84 fire and EMS units, comprising 270 fire and EMS personnel responded to the scene…