Boy Playing With Stove Caused Bronx Fire That Killed 12<br />The boy playing with the stove in a first-floor apartment screamed when the fire began, sending<br />his mother rushing into the kitchen as it filled with smoke and flames, Mr. Nigro said.<br />The 12 fatalities made the fire the deadliest since an inferno at the Happy Land<br />Social Club — less than a mile from Thursday’s blaze — killed 87 people in 1990.<br />A Bronx fire that killed 12 people was caused by a 3-year-old boy playing with the burners on a stove, the authorities said on Friday.<br />At least 12 people are dead after a fire ripped through an apartment building in the Bronx.<br />When firefighters arrived, about three minutes after the first 911 calls, as many as 20 people were scurrying down the fire escape, Mr. Nigro said.<br />She ran out of the apartment with the boy and a 2-year-old child,<br />but left the door open, allowing fire to shoot out of the kitchen and into the stairwell, Mr. Nigro said.
