Five Children Saved in Harlem Fire
Yesterday afternoon, an apartment building at 115th Street and Lenox Avenue caught fire and tenants and onlookers cheered as five children and their mothers were led to safety. A neighboring building's super, Sharif Abdul Aziz, made three different trips down the fire escape to save mothers and their babies. Aziz simply said, "Everything I do, I do for God." Firefighters also rescued one set of twins from the fifth floor by handing the kids through a window (one is pictured with a firefighter in the bucket).
The three-alarm fire started on the third floor and quickly reached upper floors. Eight adults and five children had minor injuries. And earlier yesterday, a fire that started in a Crown Fried Chicken in the East Kingsbridge seciton of the Bronx damaged three other businesses. The businesses - the chicken shop, a coffee shop, a grocery store and fruit stand - are run by families who aren't sure what they'll do next.
