NEW YORK — Authorities say one person has died and another has been critically injured in a three-alarm high-rise apartment fire in midtown Manhattan.
Firefighter spokesman Danny Glover said the fire reported to authorities shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday was in an apartment on the 20th floor of a building at 43rd Street and 10th Avenue. He says it was under control shortly before 1 p.m. He says smoke spread to several apartments around the affected apartment. Glover says it was not immediately clear what caused the fire.
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He says about 40 units responded to the fire.
Two civilians with critical injuries were taken to separate New York hospitals where police say one of the victims later died.
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