12 dead, including baby, several others injured in massive fire at Bronx apartment building

PIX 11 (WPIX) ^ | December 28, 2017 | Andrea Cavallier

[Lonely Bull]

BELMONT, the Bronx — Twelve people are dead and several others injured as a massive fire ripped through an apartment building in the Bronx on a frigid night, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a press conference on Thursday.

About 170 firefighters responded to the blaze at the five-story, walk-up apartment building at 2363 Prospect Ave., near East 187th Street around 7 p.m. It quickly escalated to a 5-alarm fire.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

That is what's mostly contributing to the homeless problem. You have these cities like NYC and Los Angeles that have strict zoning codes on what can be built because of the NIMBY people. Then landlords are required to install this, install that, give tenant's "rights," etc. Then there's Section 8 which give tenants a green light to destroy the property. And finally, there's rent control which forces landlords to rent to tenants at a loss.

So landlords don't keep up their properties or don't go in the business altogether.

The result? The lack of affordable housing that the very same liberals scream about but not realizing it's their policies that are creating it.

[Lonely Bull]

“walk-up apartment”

Unless there were fire-doors, the building was one big chimney - once she caught.

The fire commissioner said so today.

[Overtaxed]

Yahoo says the fire was started by a child playing with the oven.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-city-fire-kills-12-sends-residents-scrambling-073528730.html