NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – An 83-year-old man died and an 81-year-old man was seriously injured in an apartment fire on the Upper East Side on Wednesday morning, officials said.
The fire broke out on the second floor of a building at East 82nd Street and Second Avenue around 8:30 a.m., FDNY Deputy Assistant Chief Michael Ajello said.
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About 200 members of the department responded to the three-alarm fire, according to Ajello.
"Our first unit arrived in approximately 4 minutes, faced with a heavy fire condition on the second floor," he said. "Our units stretched lines, raised ladders and performed searches."
Citizen App video shows flames shooting out of two second-floor windows as thick smoke fills the area.
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Two injured men — an 81-year-old and an 83-year-old — were pulled from the building, one from the second floor and another from the fourth floor, officials said. One of them died at Lenox Hill Hospital, while the other was hospitalized with serious injuries, according to officials.
A firefighter also suffered a minor injury, officials said.
The identity of the victim has not been released. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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