Two jump to death trying to escape fire in Manhattan
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A man and a young boy jumped to their deaths from a sixth-floor apartment window in Upper Manhattan on Tuesday night as they tried to escape the smoke and flames from a fire raging a floor below them.
The fire began in a fifth-floor apartment of a six-story building at 611 West 148th Street near Broadway, in Hamilton Heights, around 8:45 p.m. Eight other people, including two firefighters, suffered minor injuries.
A Fire Department spokesman said the dead man was 45 years old, and the dead boy was 5 or 6. The two were related, though their relationship was not immediately clear. The child was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital in Washington Heights where he was pronounced dead.
The fire began in a fifth-floor apartment of a six-story building at 611 West 148th Street near Broadway, in Hamilton Heights, around 8:45 p.m. Eight other people, including two firefighters, suffered minor injuries.
A Fire Department spokesman said the dead man was 45 years old, and the dead boy was 5 or 6. The two were related, though their relationship was not immediately clear. The child was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital in Washington Heights where he was pronounced dead.
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