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Around 1:20 a.m. this morning, a fire broke out in a Parkchester apartment building. One resident told WCBS 2, "There was a gentleman running down the street yelling fire and [telling] everybody to get out. I heard the blast - the windows when they blew out. I was already in bed." Two teens and one boy, all of whom had been sleeping, were rescued from the apartment where the fire originated and were taken to the hospital for their minor injuries. The FDNY says they came close to "losing the whole" 6-floor building.

A West Harlem co-op fire eventually required the efforts of 170 firefighters to extinguish as it spread through the West 113th St. building 's second, third, and fourth floors. Despite the fast-moving flames, three sisters and their 34-year-old father were rescued from the fifth floor of the building before they were overcome by smoke.