As community members in the Bronx mourned the 17 people who died in a high-rise apartment fire, authorities on Tuesday continued investigating how smoke spread so quickly.
throughout the building left residents barely able to breathe as they tried to escape. Two self-closing doors did not shut properly and allowed smoke to spread, Fire Department of New York Commissioner Daniel Nigro said.
"This is an unspeakable tragedy," Mayor Eric Adams said."It is not going to define us. It is going to show our resiliency."NYC inspectors previously flagged malfunctioning doors Karen Dejesus, 54, who escaped her apartment on a fire ladder Sunday, told USA TODAY the door to her apartment was not self-closing and she wasn't sure how many of the doors in the building did close automatically.New York mayor revises death toll to 17 in Bronx apartment fire, calls tragedy 'unspeakable'
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