The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Firefighters and residents say an apartment fire in New York City has killed a woman and her adult son and sent neighbors running to the roof to escape.
The blaze erupted in a third-floor apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side shortly after midnight.
Authorities say they haven’t determined what started the fire.
Fifth-floor resident Dan Guertin tells the Daily News sirens woke him up and he fled to the roof and climbed to a building next door.
Building manager Glen Fogel says the victims were longtime residents of the building.