One civilian was injured in a residential fire in Wakefield on Tuesday morning, the FDNY said, as the cause of the blaze remains unknown.
According to the agency, fire personnel responded to 4379 Wilder Ave. in Wakefield — a two-story house in a low-density block near the Southeast Yonkers border — after receiving the call at 9:16 a.m.
The blaze started on the second floor and required 12 units and 60 fire and emergency service personnel to respond. It was marked under control after about 45 minutes, at 9:59 a.m. Emergency services treated the injured civilian.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, the FDNY said.
This comes just about a month and a half after an apartment blaze in Wakefield killed two people and injured eight others.
That three-alarm fire broke out at the top floor of the building at 735 East 242 St.
“Our first arriving units found a heavy body of fire on arrival in the top floor of the B wing, which is the middle wing,” FDNY Deputy Assistant Chief Brian Cordasco said on social media that day. “Fire extended to the cockloft area which is the space between the top floor ceiling and the roof. It also extended to the C wing.”
Another Wakefield inferno at an apartment building displaced 61 people and injured four in late January, a month where the Bronx survived multiple major fires. Approximately 200 firefighters and EMS personnel were deployed to the scene at 4055 Carpenter Ave. the night of Jan. 26, as well as the American Red Cross.
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