Firefighters arrived at the house, at 293 East Eighth Street in Kensington, about 5:30 a.m. Three young women were trapped inside. Using portable ladders, the firefighters entered the building and began searching rooms and hallways, all but blinded by the heavy smoke. On the third floor they found the women huddled in a bathroom, the Fire Department said. The firefighters carried them out of the building and put them into waiting ambulances.
The 16-year-old, identified by the police as Jasmine Guillaume, was pronounced dead at Maimonides Medical Center. The two other women, sisters ages 24 and 27, were listed in critical condition at separate hospitals. Two other women, the mother and the aunt of Ms. Guillaume, were both listed in stable condition at Kings County Hospital Center.
The cause of the fire was still being investigated on Friday afternoon, the Fire Department said. There were no working smoke detectors in the home, officials said.
Ms. Guillaume was in 11th grade at St. Saviour High School in Park Slope. On Friday, friends and classmates expressed their grief on Twitter.
One girl said that Jasmine brought "nothing but positivity and light to St. Saviour. We will truly never ever be the same without you Jasmine."
Ms. Guillaume was one of four people killed in the last two days in fires across the city. A blaze in Fordham Manor in the Bronx late Thursday evening killed two men, ages 49 and 44, the Police Department said. There were no working smoke detectors there either, officials said. And another fire, at a retirement home in Flushing, Queens, just after midnight on Thursday, killed a 73-year-old woman. Cigarettes were to blame for both of those fires, officials said.
Another fire in the Bronx erupted in a six-floor apartment building in the Williamsbridge section about 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Four people were injured, two of them critically.
The number of fires typically spikes in the winter months, fire officials said, as people switch on old space heaters or light candles for the holidays. So far this year there have been 62 fire fatalities in New York City. Of those, 44 occurred in buildings with no working smoke alarms.
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