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19 Injured in 5-Alarm Blaze at New Dorp Apartment Building, FDNY Says

By Nicholas Rizzi | May 22, 2017 11:45am

NEW DORP — A five-alarm blaze Sunday morning tore through a Mill Road apartment building, injuring 19 people, including five firefighters and four police officers, the FDNY said.

The fire started on the fourth floor of the six-story Tysens Park Apartments building at 255 Mill Road at about 4:10 a.m. then spread to the fifth and sixth floors, fire officials said.

It took 198 firefighters until 6:03 a.m. to bring the flames under control, the FDNY said.

The FDNY ruled the fire was accidental and caused by an unattended candle, the agency tweeted on Sunday.

Seventeen of the injured were taken to the hospital and two were treated on scene, according to the FDNY.

The Department of Buildings issued a partial evacuation order for the building because of the damage and the Red Cross offered temporary housing and emergency funds to four of the six families affected by the blaze, according to the agencies.

The building has 13 open violations from the DOB — mainly for failing to repair and inspect the elevator — and 40 complaints made against it from 1995 to 2017, records show.