Officials: Cause of Hempstead fire still mystery

Originally published: June 18, 2012 7:32 AM
Updated: June 18, 2012 10:39 PM
By PATRICK WHITTLE AND TANIA LOPEZ patrick.whittle@newsday.com,tania.lopez@newsday.com

Photo credit: Lou Minutoli | Firefighters battle a blaze in a Hempstead apartment building on Fulton Avenue. (June 17, 2012)

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While the cause of a stove fire that sparked a massive Village of Hempstead apartment blaze remains a mystery, the resident of the unit where it began recounted tearfully Monday how the appliance burst into flames just days after she and her four children moved in.

"All I did was turn on the stove and the whole bottom started flaming up," Maria Rodriguez said in an interview Monday.

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