Open doors fueled deadly NYC apartment building fire, officials say

Fire officials said Friday that open doors fueled the five-alarm apartment building inferno that killed two people and hurt nearly a dozen in the Bronx earlier this week.

It took just three-and-a-half minutes for firefighters to arrive on scene Tuesday afternoon at the five-story residential building on East 187th Street in Belmont, between Belmont and Cambreleng avenues.

It appeared to start in a first-floor apartment, then shot up through a stairwell, and spread to other floors. Fire officials say the door of the apartment where the fire started was left open. The front door was open…

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