Mayor Eric Adams on NYC Deadliest Blaze in Decades: We’re Unsure Right Now If the Death Toll Will Climb

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KEILAR: “It is the deadliest fire in New York City in decades. Nineteen people, and that includes nine children, killed in an apartment building fire in the Bronx. There are so many questions that are still unanswered here about how this happened. And joining us now is New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams. Mayor, thank you so much for being with us. I think we've all watched in horror as we heard the stories from folks coming out of this building and we've looked at the death toll. Are you expecting that death toll to climb?”
ADAMS: “We’re unsure right now but we believe, unfortunately, it may. Now we have 19 dead, as you mentioned. Ten of them are adults and nine of them are children. I think every parent right now is holding its babies and its children a little closer. Because it impacts us all as a parent. I felt it when I saw the number of children that we lost in this fire.”