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Rescuer: Woman screamed, 'Save my babies!'
(SAVE HER CHILDREN FROM THE COLD-HEARTED ******* CHRISTIAN GOD)
NEW YORK (AP) -- An extended family trapped in their burning Bronx house
screamed for help in the night, and one woman tossed children from a
second-floor window to try to save them, witnesses and authorities said
Thursday. Nine people died.
Eight of the victims were children, including 7-month-old twins and boys
ages 4 and 9, according to authorities and relatives. A woman in her 40s
also died, and 10 people were hospitalized.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned the death toll could increase. (Watch
rescuers describe a woman's pleas for them to save her baby )
Twenty-two members of the extended family from the west African nation of
Mali lived in the three-story house, the mayor said. A space heater or an
overloaded power strip may have started the blaze, the city's deadliest
since the 1990 Happy Land nightclub fire, not including the September 11
attacks, he said.
Outside the charred house, a few blocks from Yankee Stadium, neighbors
described how a woman had hurled children from the broken windows amid the
blaze.
"All I see is just a big cloud of white dust and out of nowhere comes the
first baby," said Edward Soto, who caught the child. He said he caught a
second child moments later as screams of "Help me! Help me!" were coming
from the house. (Watch mayor describe the trapped people upstairs )
Neighbor Elaine Martin said she saw another woman, shoeless and in a
nightgown, on the street. She was shivering in the bitter cold and
frantically worrying about her children.
"My kids is in there! my kids is in there!" Martin quoted the woman as
saying.
Among the dead, according to family members, were Fatoumata Soumare and her
three children: a son, Dgibril, and 7-month-old twins, Sisi and Harouma.
Their father, Mamadou Soumara, was driving his cab in Manhattan when he
received a frantic phone call from his wife.
"She said, `We have a fire!' She screamed," Soumara recalled. "I don't know
what I'm going to do. I love her. I love my wife." (Watch rescuers rush
victims to ambulances as frightened neighbors look on )
Soumara rushed to the building in his cab, arriving to see his children
trapped inside but unable to help. Five children from another family
perished in the blaze while their father was visiting their homeland.
Mousa Magassa, an official of the New York-based High Council for Malians
Living Abroad, was headed back to New York after receiving the grim news
that nearly half of his 11 children were dead, said council representative
Bourema Niambele.
The fire destroyed the basement and first floor. Fire investigators were on
the scene trying to determine the cause. The home had two smoke alarms, but
neither had batteries.
Fatoumata Madassa, a relative of the victims who lives across the street,
said four families lived in the building with 17 children among them.
"The kids were always playing, either in the yard of their home or on the
block with water guns and scooters," said neighbor David Robinson.
At least one of the families ran an import-export business, according to
neighbors. A public records search lists African American Import Export at
the address. No building violations had been reported at the home, built in
1901, said Kate Lindquist, a spokeswoman for the city Buildings Department.
Fire Department spokesman Seth Andrews confirmed the death toll early
Thursday. At least 10 people were injured, five seriously. The injured
included four firefighters and another emergency worker who were
hospitalized with minor injuries.
Five children ranging in age from 2 to 6 were taken to Jacobi Medical Center
with smoke inhalation and burns, hospital spokesman Michael Heller said. He
said three were in critical condition. One of the victims, an infant, died,
he said.
Three other victims -- a woman in her 40s and boys ages 4 and 9 -- were dead
on arrival at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, hospital spokesman Errol
Schneer said.
The fire was reported shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday. Firefighters had it
under control about two hours later.
The smell of smoke lingered around the house hours afterward. Windows of the
house were broken out, and parts of the building were charred and scorched.
Adding to the misery, the victims were displaced on one of the coldest
nights of the year. (Watch how cold weather froze water used by
firefighters )
"It's obviously terrible for anyone to perish like this," Bloomberg said.
"It just seems more painful and more unfair when children die. When children
die, everyone around them seems to die a little as well."(BUT NOT THE
COLD-HEARTED ******* CHRISTIAN GOD, HE JUST LAUGHS HIS SICK SADISTIC ASS
OFF, THE CHRISTIAN GOD LOVES TO MURDER CHILDREN)
Rescuer: Woman screamed, 'Save my babies!'
(SAVE HER CHILDREN FROM THE COLD-HEARTED ******* CHRISTIAN GOD)
NEW YORK (AP) -- An extended family trapped in their burning Bronx house
screamed for help in the night, and one woman tossed children from a
second-floor window to try to save them, witnesses and authorities said
Thursday. Nine people died.
Eight of the victims were children, including 7-month-old twins and boys
ages 4 and 9, according to authorities and relatives. A woman in her 40s
also died, and 10 people were hospitalized.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned the death toll could increase. (Watch
rescuers describe a woman's pleas for them to save her baby )
Twenty-two members of the extended family from the west African nation of
Mali lived in the three-story house, the mayor said. A space heater or an
overloaded power strip may have started the blaze, the city's deadliest
since the 1990 Happy Land nightclub fire, not including the September 11
attacks, he said.
Outside the charred house, a few blocks from Yankee Stadium, neighbors
described how a woman had hurled children from the broken windows amid the
blaze.
"All I see is just a big cloud of white dust and out of nowhere comes the
first baby," said Edward Soto, who caught the child. He said he caught a
second child moments later as screams of "Help me! Help me!" were coming
from the house. (Watch mayor describe the trapped people upstairs )
Neighbor Elaine Martin said she saw another woman, shoeless and in a
nightgown, on the street. She was shivering in the bitter cold and
frantically worrying about her children.
"My kids is in there! my kids is in there!" Martin quoted the woman as
saying.
Among the dead, according to family members, were Fatoumata Soumare and her
three children: a son, Dgibril, and 7-month-old twins, Sisi and Harouma.
Their father, Mamadou Soumara, was driving his cab in Manhattan when he
received a frantic phone call from his wife.
"She said, `We have a fire!' She screamed," Soumara recalled. "I don't know
what I'm going to do. I love her. I love my wife." (Watch rescuers rush
victims to ambulances as frightened neighbors look on )
Soumara rushed to the building in his cab, arriving to see his children
trapped inside but unable to help. Five children from another family
perished in the blaze while their father was visiting their homeland.
Mousa Magassa, an official of the New York-based High Council for Malians
Living Abroad, was headed back to New York after receiving the grim news
that nearly half of his 11 children were dead, said council representative
Bourema Niambele.
The fire destroyed the basement and first floor. Fire investigators were on
the scene trying to determine the cause. The home had two smoke alarms, but
neither had batteries.
Fatoumata Madassa, a relative of the victims who lives across the street,
said four families lived in the building with 17 children among them.
"The kids were always playing, either in the yard of their home or on the
block with water guns and scooters," said neighbor David Robinson.
At least one of the families ran an import-export business, according to
neighbors. A public records search lists African American Import Export at
the address. No building violations had been reported at the home, built in
1901, said Kate Lindquist, a spokeswoman for the city Buildings Department.
Fire Department spokesman Seth Andrews confirmed the death toll early
Thursday. At least 10 people were injured, five seriously. The injured
included four firefighters and another emergency worker who were
hospitalized with minor injuries.
Five children ranging in age from 2 to 6 were taken to Jacobi Medical Center
with smoke inhalation and burns, hospital spokesman Michael Heller said. He
said three were in critical condition. One of the victims, an infant, died,
he said.
Three other victims -- a woman in her 40s and boys ages 4 and 9 -- were dead
on arrival at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, hospital spokesman Errol
Schneer said.
The fire was reported shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday. Firefighters had it
under control about two hours later.
The smell of smoke lingered around the house hours afterward. Windows of the
house were broken out, and parts of the building were charred and scorched.
Adding to the misery, the victims were displaced on one of the coldest
nights of the year. (Watch how cold weather froze water used by
firefighters )
"It's obviously terrible for anyone to perish like this," Bloomberg said.
"It just seems more painful and more unfair when children die. When children
die, everyone around them seems to die a little as well."(BUT NOT THE
COLD-HEARTED ******* CHRISTIAN GOD, HE JUST LAUGHS HIS SICK SADISTIC ASS
OFF, THE CHRISTIAN GOD LOVES TO MURDER CHILDREN)
