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Cops Help Quell Fire On East 87th Street
The landlady, whose name was not released, later told police she was in her upstairs bedroom when she heard the smoke alarm in her downstairs kitchen going off. "Usually I don't hear it too well," she said, "but for some reason I did this time." She said she went to a hallway to turn off the alarm and noticed her downstairs boiler room was "all full of flames." The woman immediately called 911 and went to alert her tenants, a man and wife and their two young sons, who were in an adjoining apartment. All five ran outside as the fire spread quickly from the basement all the way to the top floor as firefighters arrived. A second alarm put 25 units and 110 firefighters on the scene and the fire was under control shortly after 1 a.m., according to Fire Department spokesman Firefighter Mike Porrella. He also said that it had not been determined specifically what the source of the fire was but police later said they thought it might have been "electrical in nature." Police sources said the Red Cross also arrived on the scene and offered to bring the tenants and landlady to a shelter but both parties said they would stay with relatives. Charles Rogers
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