Girl, 12, Niftar as Two-alarm Fire Roars Through a house
Boro Park – A 12- year-old Jewish girl was tragically killed late Monday night as a fast moving fire broke out in her house.
The blaze started on a first floor apartment on Ocean Parkway and Foster Avenue. It took firefighters hours to battle the blaze, which was upgraded to a two-alarm fire.
The girl was evacuated from the building with critical injuries and transported by Hatzolah to Maimonides Medical Center. Doctors there worked for over an hour to save her but were forced to declare her dead after midnight.
A firefighter who was injured was taken by EMS to Cornell Medical Center where he is listed in stable condition.
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