{"id":70562,"date":"2014-01-06T11:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/?p=70562"},"modified":"2014-01-06T11:35:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:35:15","slug":"fire-hells-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/archives\/fire-hells-kitchen","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Hell&#8217;s Kitchen high-rise kills one man"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id='pressboard-ad-sponsorship-tag' style='margin-bottom: 35px;'><\/h4><p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>BREAKING PHOTO: Hi rise fire in Manhattan at 500 West 43 Street. Reports of people trapped. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCFireWire\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">@NYCFireWire<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/TnTyCSHy5s\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TnTyCSHy5s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PzFeed\/statuses\/419866148675780608\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">January 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PzFeed\/status\/419866148675780608\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\">PzFeed\/Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A fire on the 20th floor of a Hell&#8217;s Kitchen condominium building killed a 27-year-old man and displaced dozens of residents.<\/p>\n<p>The three-alarm fire occurred Sunday morning at The Strand, a 42-story building at 500 West 43rd Street. <\/p>\n<p>Two men were critically injured in the blaze, officials told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/06\/nyregion\/fire-at-manhattan-high-rise-injures-two.html?partner=rss&#038;utm_source=buffer&#038;utm_campaign=Buffer&#038;utm_content=bufferf2645&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\">The New York Times<\/a> \u2014 Daniel McClung, 27, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where he died. The other man, whom a friend identified as McClung&#8217;s husband, was transported to New York-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell hospital, where he was in serious but stable condition Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported around 11 am About 24 to 27 apartments were damaged by the flames, which were under control by 1 pm. The cause of the incident is being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Resident Mickey Atwal, who was stuck at his apartment on the 26th floor, tweeted this harrowing photo:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Stuck on building on 26 floor. Building on fire. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/c5bDvWke0x\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/c5bDvWke0x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mickey Atwal (@MickeyAtwal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MickeyAtwal\/statuses\/419865701289959424\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">January 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MickeyAtwal\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\">Mickey Atwal\/Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Atwal, his wife Nadja and their two-year-old son stayed at their balcony for more than an hour to escape the smoke, The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<div id='pressboard-ad-sponsorship-msg'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three-alarm fire occurred on the 20th floor of a 42-story building at 500 West 43rd 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