13th person dies week after apartment fire caused by toddler
Posted January 04, 2018 6:00 am
NEW YORK (AP) - A 13th person has died from injuries suffered in one of New York City's deadliest fires in decades.
Police say 27-year-old Holt Francis was critically injured in the Dec. 28 Bronx apartment building fire and died at a hospital on Thursday. They say the fire was caused by a 3-year-old boy playing with stove burners.
Francis' wife, their two daughters and a niece also were killed in the fire.
Eight adults and five children died in the fire. Among them was 28-year-old Emmanuel Mensah, who rescued a number of people that night before going back into the burning building and dying of smoke inhalation.
Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro (NY'-groh) says the fire started on a stove and raced through a door and up five floors.
FILE- This Friday, Dec. 29, 2017, file photo shows broken windows on the back of the building where more than 10 people died in a fire in the Bronx borough of New York. Police say Holt Francis was critically injured in the apartment building fire and died at a hospital on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. It was one of New York Cityâs deadliest fires in decades. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)
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