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According to fire department sources, a blaze erupted in an Upper West Side high-rise, leaving four people injured.
Emergency crews responded swiftly to the incident, arriving around 5 p.m. following reports of a fire at the high-rise located at 124 West 79th Street, nestled between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Avenue. This incident occurred just half a block from the Museum of Natural History.
The fire ignited on the building’s ninth floor, prompting the deployment of 120 firefighters and EMS personnel to tackle the situation.
Among the four individuals who sustained minor injuries, one was transported to the hospital, while the remaining three received medical treatment at the scene.
The dedicated efforts of the firefighters brought the fire under control by 5:43 p.m., as confirmed by FDNY sources.
The blaze comes two days after a deadly five-alarm fire in the Bronx Thursday left one man dead and six firefighters wounded.
The massive inferno erupted on the top floor and cockloft of a building on East 184th Street near Bassford Avenue in Belmont around 5:30 a.m., according to the fire department.
A man was found dead at the scene and six firefighters were hospitalized with minor injuries.
A 62-year-old woman was killed in a fire in her six-story apartment building on West 140th Street in Harlem March 22.
A massive four-alarm inferno demolished a building in Flushing on March 16, killing four people including a child.
Three people jumped from the building to escape the flames, and two adults and one child died at the scene, with a fourth individual pronounced dead at the hospital.