7 Stores Gutted as Fire Tears Thru Bronx Biz

Massive Fire Burns Through 7 Stores in Bronx 

A massive fire ripped through seven stores in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx. -Citizen App

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

December 13, 2023 

BRONX - Bronx residents awoke to a massive fire next door to their apartment building as a row of seven stores went up in flames. Scores of residents went to their fire escapes and to the streets to record the fire on Citizen App. 

FDNY officials said only one person was injured in the massive fire.  

According to the FDNY the fire started at around 3:30 am inside Bunny’s Deli Cold Cut City at West 231st Street and Broadway. Eyewitness News reported on a witness who claims the fire started at the back of the Kingsbridge deli.

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Officials say 200 firefighters responded to the massive blaze that threatened to spread to an adjoining apartment building. Dramatic video shows firefighters on the cherry picker pouring water down into the stores and cutting off the spread of the blaze. Plumes of circling black and white smoke twisted along side of the occupied next door apartment building that was spared. 

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All seven stores have been gutted by the fire. The fronts of the stores are still standing but the interiors were gutted by fire and water damage. 

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Among the stores were a meat market, pizzeria and a tax preparer.