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Fire in Belmont, Bronx: Photos from the scene

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  • About 170 New York City firefighters work at the frigid scene of a blaze that has left 12 dead and numerous injured in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, one block from the zoo, on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017.
    Photo Credit: David Handschuh
  • A person walks from the scene of the fire in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx that killed 12 and injured others on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017.
    Photo Credit: David Handschuh
  • Evacuated residents try to keep warm with Red Cross blankets at the scene of a huge blaze in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017.
    Photo Credit: David Handschuh
  • A Red Cross worker walks with an evacuated resident of a building that burned on Prospect Avenue near East 185th Street in the Bronx's Belmont neighborhood on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017.
    Photo Credit: David Handschuh
  • Thirty-nine units and 175 firefighters battle the blaze on Prospect Avenue in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, an FDNY spokesman said, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017.
    Photo Credit: David Handschuh
  • Evacuated residents try to keep warm on a frigid night, displaced after a fire erupted in in a Prospect Aveunue building in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017.
    Photo Credit: David Handschuh
  • Crisbel Martinez, 10, is hugged by a family member, who escaped the fire with her, near their apartment building on Dec. 29, 2017.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • An FDNY firefighter looks out the window of a building Friday, Dec. 29, 2017, where a fatal fire in the Bronx killed 12 people Thursday evening.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle

A massive fire erupted in the Bronx’s Belmont neighborhood on the evening of Dec. 28, 2017, leaving 12 people dead.

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