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A Brooklyn man died and a child was injured during a spate of blazes throughout New York City last night.
Firefighters found a man burning inside the kitchen of his second-floor apartment at 371 Madison St., Bedford-Stuyvesant, about 6:50 p.m.
He was pronounced dead at the scene of the blaze, which took firefighters only 10 minutes to control. The victim's landlord, Annell Hudson, identified him as Larry Johnson.
"He's a very fine man, a hardworking man," Hudson said.
Investigators believe the fire began in the man's stove while he was cooking.
In Rosedale, Queens, a 4-year-old boy suffered smoke inhalation and burns while apparently starting a fire inside a relative's house.
The boy was playing with another child in his cousin's bedroom when he somehow lit his shirt on fire.
His cousin, 15-year-old Latoya Stewart, picked up the burning boy and placed him in a bathtub to put out the flames, according to neighbor Trey Temple, 15.
"I wasn't surprised that she would do something like that," said Trey, a friend of Latoya's. "She rushed to help the little boy."
The child, who was not identified, was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center for treatment in the hyperbaric chamber, fire officials said.
And a stubborn, four-alarm blaze in Queens took firefighters more than two hours to extinguish.
The fire broke out in the cockloft of the six-story building on Forley St. in Elmhurst. Several people suffered minor injuries in the blaze.
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