Dozens remain in hospital after New York City apartment fire, several in critical condition

As doctors raced Monday to save survivors of New York City’s deadliest fire in three decades, authorities began investigating how thick smoke could billow through a high-rise, trapping many families inside and killing 17 people, including eight children.

Dozens of people were hospitalized — several of them in critical condition — after Sunday’s fire in the Bronx.

Mayor Eric Adams called it an “unspeakable tragedy” at a news conference near the scene.

“This tragedy is not going to define us,” Adams said. “It is going to show our resiliency.”

Two fewer deaths than originally reported

Adams also said two fewer people were killed than originally thought.