Fire in the Bronx

Horrible news out of New York yesterday. A fire killed eight children and an woman from Mali in the Bronx. An over heated cord on a space heater seems to have caused the fire.
The New York Times has coverage of the complete tragedy.

Eight children and an adult were killed in a fire in the Bronx on Wednesday night that raced up from the basement of a more than 100-year-old wooden building where 22 people from immigrant families lived, the authorities said.

Mothers, shrouded in thick smoke, threw their unconscious children from three stories above to neighbors who tried to catch them, witnesses said. Rescuers fought to revive victims with C.P.R. and oxygen masks on the frigid street in the Highbridge neighborhood near Yankee Stadium, which has a large population of African immigrant families.