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Saturday 21 March 2015

'Mummy! Mummy help me': SEVEN siblings, ages 5 to 15, who died in Brooklyn fire could be heard screaming as mother was forced to jump out of window to find help


Fire tore through a Brooklyn home early Saturday (right), killing seven siblings and leaving their mother, Gayle Sassoon, and sister in critical condition. The dead are children ranging in age from 5 to 15-years-old, with the boys ages 5, 6, 7 and 11 and the girls ages 8, 12, and 15. 'This is an unbelievable tragedy,' said Mayor Bill de Blasio (top left) after visiting the scene on Saturday. It is the deadliest fire in the city since a 2008 inferno that claimed the lives 10, including nine children, in the Bronx. A hot plate that the Orthodox Jewish family was using to keep food warm during the Sabbath caused the blaze.

A Brooklyn blaze killed seven siblings, ages 5 to 14, and critically injured their sister, 15, and mother
A Brooklyn blaze killed seven siblings, ages 5 to 14, and critically injured their sister, 15, and mother

A malfunctioning hot plate ignited a Brooklyn inferno that left seven children dead, and their mother and another sibling in critical condition, officials said.
A mother and her eight children — four boys and four girls ranging in age from 5 to 15 years-old — were in their Midwood home when the fire began in the kitchen just after midnight Saturday. Flames and deadly smoke quickly spread to second floor where the youngest kids were sleeping, authorities said.
The blaze began in the kitchen, when a hot plate that was left on, likely to keep food warm during the Sabbath without using the oven, caught fire
A child’s cries of, “Mommy, Mommy, help me!” could be heard outside the blazing two-story brick home, a neighbor told The Post.
The mother, Gayle Sassoon, 45, and her 14-year-old daughter, Tzipara, jumped from second-floor windows to escape the flames.
Sassoon, her hands and feet bloodied, screamed, “My kids are in there, get them out! Get them out!” neighbors said.
The rest of the children were in five upstairs bedrooms in the rear of the two-story brick home. They were identified as Yakob, 5; Sarah, 6; Moshe, 8; Yeshua, 10; Rivkah, 11; David, 12; and Eliane, 15.
The fire tore through the home in Brooklyn, New York a little after midnight early Saturday morning
“The smoke and flames were horrendous. You couldn’t even see the house,” said Andrew Rosenblatt, 65, who called 911 at 12:23 a.m. to report the fire.
Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro called it “the largest tragedy by fire that this city has had in seven years.”
The hot plate might have been turned on before sundown Friday and left on to keep food warm, authorities said. Observant Jews avoid turning on ovens or electrical appliances once Sabbath begins.

1 comment:

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