Teen boy dead, 4 others critical after battery sets NYC apartment ablaze: FDNY
Oct 28, 2026
One teenage boy is dead, and four other people are critically hurt after an overnight fire torched part of a Bronx apartment building.
Emergency crews responded to the Patterson Houses shortly before 1 a.m. in the Mott Haven neighborhood for reports of a fire at the Morris Avenue residential comm
unity. A fire had started on the 11th floor of the building.
Investigators later said a lithium-ion battery sparked it.
First responders pulled five people from the location: two adults, one of them a 33-year-old woman, and three boys all in their early-to-mid teens. One of the three boys did not survive. The four survivors were hospitalized.
Firefighters had the flames under control after nearly an hour of work.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to join FDNY officials at a news briefing later Wednesday.
The victims’ relationship to one another was not immediately clear.
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