NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — The city has issued a vacate order for a basement apartment where a fire killed a 7-year-old boy Saturday morning, officials said.
The FDNY has deemed the fire as accidental, stemming from electrical wiring involving a power strip — but a Department of Buildings review found the apartment itself was illegally occupied.
The fire sparked around 1:30 a.m. Saturday in the superintendent’s basement apartment at 660 West 178 Street in Washington Heights, killing the super’s grandson, Robert Resto, and seriously injuring another woman, according to police.
Two storage rooms in the apartment were illegally converted into sleeping quarters and each were damaged by the blaze, according to the DOB.
The agency issued Partial Vacate Order for the fire-damaged sections of the basement and said an investigation into the incident is ongoing.
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