Despite tragic blaze, New York's fire fatalities are sharply down
Just one year ago, New York City officials were celebrating the lowest number of fire fatalities the city had ever seen in over 100 years.
On Thursday, however, on one of the coldest and windiest nights of the year, a deadly blaze swept through a Bronx apartment building, killing at least 12 people, including a one-year-old and his mother.
It was the largest number of fatalities in a single fire in New York since 1990, when 87 people perished in an arson attack on a Bronx social club – less than a mile from
