{"id":542736,"date":"2026-01-25T22:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/542736\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T22:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:34:12","slug":"50-year-old-woman-dies-in-fatal-fire-in-bronx-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/542736\/","title":{"rendered":"50-year-old woman dies in fatal fire in Bronx apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 50-year-old woman has died after a fire tore through her Bronx apartment building, authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\n

Firefighters received the call about the blaze around 7:44 a.m., but were initially directed to the wrong address, causing a slight delay, FDNY Deputy Chief Andrew Holzmaier told a reporter at the scene. The firefighters arrived at the correct address about 6 minutes after the initial call, discovering the entire first floor of a six-story building near Grand Ave. and W. 183rd St. in University Heights on fire, Holzmaier said.<\/p>\n

The arriving smoke eaters \u201cfound heavy volume of fire out of the front first-floor windows as well as into the hallway\u201d and \u201cmade an aggressive interior attack,\u201d Holzmaier said.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the FDNY dispatched 21 units of 79 Fire and EMS personnel to the scene, with the fire brought under control by 9:09 a.m., FDNY said.<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

People cry at the scene after a 50-year-old woman was killed in a Bronx apartment fire on Sunday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old woman who perished, and whose identity was not immediately released, was found unconscious and unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene, an NYPD spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed a 37-year-old woman in critical but stable condition to Jacobi Hospital<\/a>, where she is being treated for burns, according to police. Firefighters also rescued a third victim with minor injuries who refused medical treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just got here, my daughter is in the hospital,\u201d said Nelson Myales, who was standing outside the building. \u201cShe jumped out of her apartment window on the first floor. I don\u2019t even know her condition,\u201d Myales said. \u201cHer mother\u2019s right here, and she\u2019s crying.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was sleeping. My daughters woke me up, saying that the building was on fire,\u201d said Lily Lopez, who has lived on the 4th floor of the building for 25 years. \u201cSo as soon as I noticed that, I got dressed and I took both my daughters, and we ran out of through the fire escape.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Firefighters<\/p>\n

Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Firefighters work in the snow at a Bronx apartment fire on Sunday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very sad, super sad, like it\u2019s crazy,\u201d said Lopez, who was friendly with the woman who perished. Lopez and other residents said the woman lived on the first floor. \u201cI can\u2019t believe this happened to my neighbor, to my friend, to my building. It\u2019s really sad that my daughter has to see this, that I had to leave everything behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five residents have been displaced from their homes during the freezing Code Blue weather<\/a>, an NYPD official said. They are being assisted by the Red Cross.<\/p>\n

Fire marshals are investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n

\"One<\/p>\n

Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Firefighters at a Bronx apartment fire on Sunday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 50-year-old woman has died after a fire tore through her Bronx apartment building, authorities said Sunday. Firefighters…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":542737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-542736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115958124814997643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542736","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=542736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}