The deceased ranged in age from 6 months to 42 years old.
The Times-Picayune via APĬandles that the family was using caught a mattress on fire, which got stuck in a doorway as they tried to drag it outside. ATF agents walk into a townhouse while investigating a fire that killed 11 family members in a fire in the New Orleans suburb of Marrero, La. “I kept hearing them kids hollering and screaming and stuff.” Louisiana apartment fire on March 10, 2005Ī family moved into an apartment in southern Louisiana on March 10, 2005, and their new home caught fire just hours later, leaving 11 of them dead. “I knew there were children in the house, and you want to do something,” he told the Louisville Courier-Journal. Patti Longmire/APĭwight Mason, a neighbor, said he was briefly able to get into the house through a window but had to turn back. A Bardstown firefighter is shown inside the house where a fire broke out on Feb. Ten family members, including six children, died when a one-story wood-frame home went up in flames early in the morning of Feb. They were all part of a 22-person extended family from the west African nation of Mali that lived in the house. Ten people, including eight children, died in the fire. Moussa Magassa, who lost five of his children in the Bronx fire, can be seen through the window of his home while he rummages through the apartment as he gathers some personal belongings on March 13, 2007. Bronx house fire on March 8, 2007Ī space heater on an overloaded power strip sparked a fire in the basement of a Bronx three-story house on March 8, 2007. and only two family members escaped, one by jumping out of a second-story window.Įight of the victims were children, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pennsylvania house fire on April 3, 2008Ī two-story house fire in the small town of Brockway, about 80 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, left 10 family members dead on April 3, 2008. It was the deadliest fire in Memphis since the 1920s. “I’ve never seen firemen cry, but they were bawling like babies when they brought the children out,” Hampton told The Tennessean. Karen Pulfer Focht/APĪ neighbor, Shondra Hampton, said that firemen pulled lifeless bodies out of the home, which had metal bars over most of the windows. Frederick Terrell looks inside the home where an early morning fire killed multiple people, including children on Sept. 12, 2016, leaving four adults and six children dead. 12, 2016Ī fire started in the living room of a small Memphis, Tennessee, home shortly after midnight on Sept. 28, 2017.įire Commissioner Daniel Nigro called it “historic in its magnitude” as it was the worst fire in New York City in a quarter-century.Įmmanuel Mensah, a private in the National Guard, saved multiple people from the burning building before succumbing to smoke inhalation. Richard HarbusĪ 3-year-old playing with stove burners started this fire on the first floor of a five-story Bronx apartment building, leaving 13 people dead on Dec. 28, 2017 The front entrance hallway of 2363 Prospect Avenue is seen here following the 2017 fire. The building’s landlord was cited just three years earlier for not having a smoke detector in the unit where the fire started, according to the Chicago Tribune. No adults were present when the fire broke out and there were no working smoke detectors in the home. A tattered home is seen after a deadly fire in Chicago. Ten minors, including six children under the age of 12, were killed during a sleepover when a blaze broke out on the porch of a Chicago apartment on Aug. G.N.Miller/NY Post Chicago apartment fire on Aug. The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP The January 2022 Bronx apartment fire killed more than a dozen people. Family members gather for a vigil for the victims of the fatal rowhouse fire, in front of Bache-Martin School in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia on Jan. Here is a look at some of the deadliest residential fires over the last 20 years in the United States. The Philadelphia row house fire, which authorities say may have been started by a toddler who was playing with a lighter near a Christmas tree, was the deadliest to hit the city in more than a century. “This is going to be one of the worst fires that we have witnessed during modern times,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said of Sunday’s fire, which also left at least 63 people injured. 5 and a New York City apartment fire killing 17 on Sunday. Two massive fires have devastated the United States in the first nine days of 2022, with a Philadelphia row house fire killing 12 people on Jan. Shoppers 'astounded' by thinning grocery store supplies
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