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NEW YORK — A 46-year-old man was killed and nine others were injured in a five-alarm blaze that engulfed a hardware store early Wednesday, fire officials said.
The FDNY says the fire broke out at about 3:30 a.m. at the hardware store that sits below a set of apartments at Flatbush and St. Marks avenues in Prospect Heights. Bassam Awad died in the blaze. Three other people were critically injured, three had minor injuries and two police officers had smoke inhalation.
Authorities say that the three people critically injured included a man in his late teens who suffered from smoke inhalation and a 60-year-old woman and another woman in her 90s. Both women were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s Weill Cornell campus with serious burns.
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