Cops: 14 injured after candle sparks fire

Originally published: July 23, 2012 6:37 AM
Updated: July 23, 2012 9:16 PM
By JOHN VALENTI john.valenti@newsday.com

Many residents evacuated from an apartment building in hempstead that caught fire due to an unattended candle. Videojournalist: Stringer News Service (July 23, 2012) (July 23, 2012 1:22 PM)

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Fourteen people, including a firefighter, were injured, two of them critically, after a fire sparked by an unattended candle swept through an apartment building in Hempstead Sunday night, police said.

The identities of the injured were not released.

The two most seriously injured in the fire on Terrace Avenue were in critical but stable condition Monday, Nassau County police said.

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