{"id":375128,"date":"2025-11-13T04:23:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/375128\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T04:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:23:26","slug":"woman-74-killed-7-others-injured-in-afternoon-blaze-at-nyc-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/375128\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 74, killed, 7 others injured in afternoon blaze at NYC apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 74-year-old woman was killed and seven others were hurt in a ravaging blaze that tore through an Upper East Side apartment building Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out on the top floor of a five-story apartment building on East 81st Street between First and York Avenue in Yorkville around 12:30 p.m., according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.44144144;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37651595\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eight-people-including-three-firefighters-115289846.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters and emergency vehicles responding to an apartment fire in a city.\" class=\"wp-image-37651595\"  \/>A 74-year-old woman was killed, and multiple other civilians and firefighters were hurt in a blaze inside an Upper East Side building on Wednesday afternoon. Citizen<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.51515152;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37651605\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eight-people-including-three-firefighters-115289848.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters on an extended ladder and building roof during an Upper East Side apartment fire.\" class=\"wp-image-37651605\"  \/>The 74-year-old woman was rushed by EMS to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she was later pronounced dead. Citizen<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters discovered an wounded, unidentified 74-year-old woman inside the building. She was rushed by EMS to Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>She was later pronounced dead, police said. The city\u2019s medical examiner will determine the cause of her death.<\/p>\n<p>Four other civilians and three firefighters were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries, authorities added. <\/p>\n<p>The deadly blaze was under control by 1:22 p.m., according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>The cause and origin of the fire remain under investigation, officials added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 74-year-old woman was killed and seven others were hurt in a ravaging blaze that tore through an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":375129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5416,6525,4216,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,26318,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-375128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-deaths","10":"tag-fdny","11":"tag-fires","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-upper-east-side","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115540487163427977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}