1 Dead, 2 Hurt Following Suspicious Fire At Bronx Apartment Building
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- One person was killed and two others injured when a fire broke out at an apartment building in the Bronx.
They FDNY said it responded to reports of a fire around 1:30 p.m. Saturday inside 2216 Adams Pl. in the Belmont section.
"It was just coming, just pouring out the window. It wasn't like thick, black smoke. It was like thick, gray smoke coming out the window. And people were on the roof and everything," one witness told CBS2's Clark Fouraker.
When firefighters entered the building, they found a 44-year-old woman unconscious. Medics rushed her to St. Barnabas Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
A 50-year-old woman and 50-year-old man were also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police sources tell CBS2 a domestic dispute may have led to the fire in the second-floor apartment.
"The man and the woman are always fighting, they're always fighting," neighbor Myrta Melendez said. "He started yelling, like he's getting burned... I heard like something catching fire."
Authorities have not said what led to the dispute or how the fire started.
