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Officials with the city's fire department say electrical wiring was to blame for a deadly fire in Brooklyn early Monday morning.
The blaze broke out just after midnight at a home on East 19th Street in Ditmas Park.
Firefighters arrived to find a 76-year-old woman and a 50-year-old woman dead. A 12-year-old boy was rushed to New York Community Hospital, but he was pronounced dead as well.
Another teenage boy is in serious but stable condition at Kings County Hospital.
Witnesses say it was a dramatic scene.
"I saw flames shooting out above the third story," said a witness. "They pulled somebody out on a stretcher."
"There was a lady screaming. I think that she was saying that there was somebody in the house, and the cops were trying to calm her down," added another.
Three firefighters also suffered minor injuries.
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