New York: At least 38 people were injured after a fire erupted in a Manhattan high-rise building on Saturday morning.
According to reports, the incident was reported on East 52nd Street in Manhattan. While two of the wounded were in critical condition and five were seriously injured after the blaze.
The fire was “close to our 200th fire this year where the cause of the fire is a lithium-ion battery from a micro-mobility device,” the chief air marshal, Dan Flynn said.
“We’re seeing an exponential increase (in these types of fires) … over the last few years. These fires, they come without warning and when they do go on, they’re so intense that any combustibles in the area will catch fire,” Flynn said adding that the region had six fatalities this year just from these batteries that power micro-mobility devices.”
