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Watch: Bronx Fire Leaves 23 Hurt, 4 Seriously, FDNY Says

BREAKING: Firefighters responded to the blaze at a four-story building near the Bronx Zoo in Van Nest at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.

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THE BRONX, NY — Just days after the Bronx saw the deadliest residential fire to hit New York City in at least 25 years, fire officials said 23 people were hurt — four seriously — when a blaze swept through another Bronx building.

Firefighters responded to the blaze at a four-story building near the Bronx Zoo in Van Nest at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, the FDNY said. There are 12 apartments in the building and the blaze appears to have ignited in a first-floor furniture store, WABC-TV reported.

None of the injuries are considered life threatening, fire officials said. Of those injured, 22 are civilians and one is a firefighter, officials said.

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"Praying for a swift recovery for all those injured. Thank you to the [FDNY] and our first responders for fighting this fire throughout the night," Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted Tuesday.

The building, located near Commonwealth and East Tremont avenues, is managed by the landlord of another apartment complex that caught fire in Brooklyn in 2016, city records show.

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After that fire, Mansour Mehdizadeh's tenants waited in homeless shelters for more than a year as he stalled on completing repairs to the building on DeKalb Avenue in Bushwick, DNAinfo reported in May.

More than 200 firefighters were at the scene of Tuesday’s six-alarm blaze.

A dozen people were killed in an apartment blaze last week at 2363 Prospect Ave. in Belmont. That fire appeared to have been started by a child playing with a stove.

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Dan Hampton and Kathleen Culliton contributed to this report.

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