00:00 New York City witnessed two fire incidents in inhabited areas on Sunday.
00:11 According to a report by the New York Post, one of the fire incidents took place in a
00:15 residential apartment building in Brooklyn.
00:18 The other incident happened about five miles away and severely affected a cluster of nine
00:23 stores on Lee Avenue in Williamsburg.
00:26 Three children, aged four, five and eight, were rescued from the 11th floor of the apartment
00:31 building on Livonia Avenue near Sackman Street in Brownsville.
00:36 The children were sent to the hospital, where they are reported to be in stable but critical
00:40 condition.
00:41 According to reports, in the fire incident at Lee Avenue, 10 firefighters had to be hospitalized.
00:46 Reports said that rescuers had to crawl through the smoke-filled apartment to extract the
00:50 injured kids and immediately attempted to resuscitate them before handing them over
00:55 off to paramedics who performed more advanced life-saving manoeuvres.
00:59 Videos of the two fire incidents are doing the rounds on social media, in which firefighters
01:04 can be seen trying to contain the blaze while fumes of smoke rise up into the sky.
01:09 Fire Commissioner of the City of New York, Laura Kavanagh, took to social media platform
01:13 X and lauded the personnel for doing a great job in rescuing the children and dousing both
01:18 the fires.
01:19 Kavanagh's post read, "I want to commend our firefighters and EMS members.
01:24 They come through every day but today was an incredibly busy one.
01:28 There were two intense fires that could have been deadly.
01:30 The first was at Livonia where FFs rescued three children.
01:34 The other was a 5-alarm at 106 Lee Avenue.
01:37 Meanwhile, the father of the children, 37-year-old Anthony Halliburton, was arrested in the wake
01:43 of the incident.
01:44 He has been charged with three counts, each of abandonment of a child and endangering
01:49 the welfare of a child.
01:50 Kavanagh said that the circumstances are under investigation as to why the children were
01:54 home alone.
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