Six killed as fire tears through wood-frame Sunset Park rental where residents were trapped behind window bars

Six people were killed and nine others injured, including three firefighters and two police officers, when a fast-moving three-alarm fire tore through a wood-frame rental building at 653 58th Street in Sunset Park early Thursday, November 5, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a news conference at the scene.

The Fire Department received a call from a neighbor at 1:39 a.m. and firefighters arrived in less than four minutes, Mamdani said. They were met by heavy fire in the…

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