Fire deaths in New York City have nearly doubled this year, the FDNY says, as police identified three of the six people killed in a house fire on 58th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, last week.
Eighty-seven people have died in fires in the city so far in 2026, compared with 45 during the same period last year, according to the FDNY. The count includes two people who died this year from injuries sustained in fires in 2023 and 2025.
Police identified three of the people killed in Thursday’s fire as Lin Cheng Zong, 47; Weixiu Zeng, 52; and Li Sun Zhu, 21, all of whom lived in the house. The other three victims were badly burned and will require additional steps to be positively identified, police said…