 NEW YORK (Reuters) -Twelve people were killed, including an infant, and four were criticallyinjured on Thursday in a fire that swept through several floors of an apartmentbuilding in the New York City borough of the Bronx, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. 路透社纽约分部发稿， 市长比尔·德·布拉西奥（Bill de Blasio）发言，在周四纽约布朗克斯区公寓的一场火灾中，有12人死亡，其中包括一名婴儿，另外有四人受到重伤。 The blaze started onthe first floor of the brick building and quickly spread upstairs, city FireCommissioner Daniel Nigro told reporters at a news conference with the mayor.The cause was under investigation. 市消防专员Daniel Nigro在新闻发布会上告诉记者，大火始于公寓一楼，火势迅速蔓延楼上，火灾起因正在调查中。 De Blasio said thedeath toll ranked as 'one of the worst losses of life to a fire in many,many years' in the city. Four people were inhospital in critical condition 'fighting for their lives,' the mayorsaid. De Blasio（纽约市长）对死亡人数发言称：“这是纽约市多年来最严重的一场火灾，还有四人在医院中为自己的生命而战”。 Authorities saidfirefighters rescued 12 people from the building. 当局称消防员从公寓中救出了12人。 'People died onvarious floors of the apartment, ranging in age from 1 to over 50,' Nigrotold reporters. 'In a department that is surely no stranger to tragedy,we're shocked by the lives lost.' 消防专员Nigro ：“伤亡分布在不同楼层，死亡年龄从1到50岁不等，在一个经常面对悲剧的部门中，我们对这么多生命的消逝感到震惊” Two of the dead werefound in a bathtub, according to cable news station NY1. 据有线电视新闻台报道，有两名死者在浴缸中被发现。 'Hold yourfamilies close and keep those families here in the Bronx in your prayers,'de Blasio said in a message to New Yorkers. De Blasio（纽约市长）对纽约市民说：“拥抱你的家人，与家人一起为布朗克斯祷告。” The blaze eruptedshortly before 7 p.m. in the Belmont section of the Bronx, a primarilyresidential, close-knit neighborhood known as the 'Little Italy' ofthe borough, adjacent to the Bronx Zoo and Fordham University. 火灾大约在晚上7点之前在布朗克斯的贝尔特蒙（Belmont）地区发生，这是一个被成为小意大利的主要居住地区，位于布朗克斯动物园与德芙汉姆大学附近。 New York is goingthrough a bitter cold snap with temperatures in the low-teens Fahrenheit andhigh winds, which according to one media account, stoked flames inside thebuilding as residents flung open doors and windows. 纽约市正处于寒冬中，现在气温只有十几华氏度（10华氏度为-12℃），据一家媒体报导，当居民打开门窗时大风吹进了公寓，催发了建筑物内的火焰。 Wherever fire hosessprayed, the ground was covered with sheets of ice, according to an NY1reporter. 据纽约一名记者说，消防管喷过的地方结起了冰块。 One witness, RafaelGonzalez, who lives across the street from the building, told televisionstation WCBS-TV, an affiliate of CBS News, he saw some youths on a fire escapeof the burning building as the fire raged. “What woke me up wasthe smoke, because I thought it was my building,' he said. 一位居住在街对面的目击者（Rafael Gonzalez）对记者说：“我看到一些年轻人尝试在火灾中逃生。让我惊醒的是烟雾，当时我还以为是我房子里的烟雾。 No heavy damage tothe exterior of the building was visible in news footage and photographs. 照片与采访中没有显示公寓外观的损坏。  The New York CityFire Department said more than 160 firefighters responded to the four-alarm blaze. 纽约市消防部门表示，有超过160名消防员应对四级火警。  Pictures posted onTwitter by the fire department showed two fire trucks with aerial laddersextended to the upper floors of a brick building bathed in flood lights, andfirefighters on the fire escape outside what appeared to be a second- orthird-floor unit. 消防部门在Twitter上发布的消息显示，两辆消防车的云梯延伸到一所砖木结构公寓二、三楼的位置。 The number ofcivilian fire fatalities in New York City last year dropped to 48, the fewestin the 100 years since record-keeping began, the FDNY said on its website. Data on 2017 firefatalities was not immediately available. |
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