Thomas Tracy
(TNS)
A 10-year-old boy alone in his Bronx home was hospitalized with serious injuries after a fire tore through the seventh-floor apartment Saturday morning, authorities and a source said.
Firefighters were called to the W. 228th St. residence near Broadway in the Marble Hill section around 8:15 a.m., the FDNY said.
Medics rushed the burned child suffering from smoke inhalation to Jacobi Medical Center. He was initially in critical condition but is now expected to survive, a police source said.
A firefighter was also hospitalized with a minor injury, an FDNY spokesman said.
The flames were put out around 9 a.m.
The child’s mother was out doing laundry, according to the source, but it’s not clear if she was at a laundromat or in the building.
FDNY Fire Marshals were trying to determine what sparked the fire, though the source said it may have been started by a candle.
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