FDNY Firefighter Among 19 Hurt in Two-Alarm Fire

March 6, 2019
More than 100 firefighters tackled a blaze in the Bronx that forced several people—including a woman thought to be in her 80s—to leap from a third-story window onto a car.

An FDNY firefighter was one of 19 people hurt when a two-alarm fire broke out Wednesday in a three-story building in the Bronx.

Two people were in critical condition, and seven others suffered serious injuries in the Holland Avenue blaze, WNBC-TV reports. A firefighter, as well as a New York City police officer and eight civilians, sustained minor injuries.

More than 100 firefighters were called to the scene of the fire that broke out on the building's ground floor just before 6 a.m. Witnesses told WNBC that several people, including a woman believed to be in her 80s, were forced to leap from a third-story window and land on a car's hood below.