Raw video & radio traffic: Brooklyn house fire kills mother & 3 children
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Raw video and radio traffic from NYRRT taken at a three-alarm house fire early this morning on East 14th Street in Brooklyn that killed three children and their mother.
Benjamin Mueller & Nate Schweber, The New York Times:
It was the sixth night of Hanukkah, and in a front room of the Azan family’s three-story Brooklyn home was an oil-burning menorah. The family placed it where the Talmud says to: in the window, so a passer-by could see.
As the family slept around 2 a.m. on Monday, flames leapt from near the menorah, starting a fire that killed three Azan children and their mother and badly injured their father and other children, the Fire Department said.
The menorah, about two feet wide, burned oil held in small glass cups. Fire marshals suspect the glass may have cracked under extended heat exposure, spilling oil and spreading flames, a Fire Department official said.
