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Ten people were injured after a police cruiser collided with another vehicle in the Bronx Thursday afternoon and jumped the curb, New York Police Department officials said at a news conference.

Everyone is expected to survive, Chief of Patrol Jeffery Maddrey said, adding the injured range in age from 2 to 65.

Police were not involved in a chase, Maddrey said, but were responding to the report of a stolen vehicle.

Officers were responding with their lights and sirens on when they crossed over the double yellow line to pass a vehicle in front of them, Maddrey said. But that vehicle made a left turn and the vehicles collided, sending the police cruiser over the curb and onto the sidewalk, Maddrey said.

Six people on the sidewalk were injured along with two officers in the police vehicle and two civilians in the other vehicle, he added.

The officers "were trying to get here, they were trying to prevent that crime, they were trying to apprehend someone that was attempting to steal a vehicle and unfortunately, the accident allowed the person to steal the vehicle," Maddrey said.

"We don't want to see anybody injured, especially when the officers are trying to do the right thing," he added. "They were trying to prevent a crime in progress."

"We know they are getting the best medical care right now," Maddrey said. "We just pray for everybody, the officers and the families."

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

NEW YORK — Families are suing the owners of an apartment building in the Bronx after 17 people died in a fire.

The five lawsuits named Bronx Park Phase III Preservation, the Bronx Phase III Housing Co., and three investment groups as defendants.

The suits allege that safety violations led to the tragedy.

Fire officials said a malfunctioning space heater started the blaze on January 9.

The fire produced suffocating smoke that rose through a stairwell and killed people as they tried to flee.

Lawyers with the New York law firm Weitz & Luxenberg said owners of the building did not follow rules for self-closing doors and windows that can stay open.

Attorneys added that residents of the apartment where the fire started left their front door open.

Spring-loaded hinges were supposed to shut the door automatically, but they did not work.

Fire investigators said that the apartment’s front door and a door on the 15th floor should have been self-closing to help contain the spreading smoke, but that the doors stayed fully open.

It was not clear if the doors failed mechanically or if they had been manually disabled

The lawsuit did not specify details about monetary damages and did not cite specific safety violations.

Another attorney, Larry Goldhirsch, said specifics will be announced in the coming weeks.

A spokesperson for the building’s owners denies they were responsible.

NEW YORK CITY — Rapper Cardi B has offered to pay the funeral costs for the 17 people killed in an apartment fire in New York City.

Cardi B was raised in the Bronx, the same borough where the fire happened.

In a statement, Cardi B said, “I’m extremely proud to be from the Bronx and I have lots of family and friends who live and work there still. So, when I heard about the fire and all the victims, I knew I needed to do something to help.”

The Grammy-winning artist will partner with the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City to help the fire victims’ families.

The donation will also help pay for repatriation expenses, as many of the victims had ties to Gambia in West Africa.

New York State is also giving $2 million to survivors and victims’ families.

The high-rise fire has been described as New York City’s deadliest in 30 years.

Fire officials say a malfunctioning electric space heater sparked the blaze.

All victims died of smoke inhalation, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner reports.

BRONX COUNTY, N.Y. —

A major fire in a residential apartment building in the Bronx in New York City on Sunday left 19 people dead, including nine children, in what Mayor Eric Adams described as one of the worst fires the city has experienced in modern times.

The blaze sent 32 people to hospitals with life-threatening conditions, Daniel Nigro, commissioner of the New York City Fire Department, said earlier Sunday. A total of 63 people were injured.

A "malfunctioning electric space heater" was the source of the fire, Nigro said during a press conference. The heater was in the bedroom of an apartment, and the fire consumed the room and then the entire apartment, he said.

The apartment door was left open and smoke spread throughout the building when the residents left their unit, Nigro said.

"This is a horrific, horrific, painful moment for the city of New York, and the impact of this fire is going to really bring a level of just pain and despair in our city," Adams said.

About 200 members of the New York City Fire Department responded to the fire at the 19-story building at 333 East 181st St. The fire began a little before 11 a.m. in a duplex apartment on the second and third floors of the building, the FDNY said.

Firefighters were met by "very heavy smoke, very heavy fire" in the hallways.

Victims were found in stairways on every floor of the building, many in cardiac arrest, in what Nigro said could be an unprecedented loss of life. The injuries were predominantly from smoke inhalation, he said.

Firefighters kept attempting to save people from the building despite running out of air tank, Nigro said. Some of the residents who were trying to leave the building could not "escape because of the volume of smoke."

The FDNY posted several images of the scene showing ladders extending into apartment windows as well as a number of broken windows.

"This is going to be one of the worst fires that we have witnessed during modern times here in the city of New York," Adams said.

"I am horrified by the devastating fire in the Bronx today," New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Twitter. "My heart is with the loved ones of all those we've tragically lost, all of those impacted and with our heroic FDNY firefighters. The entire State of New York stands with New York City."

The residential apartment where the fire occurred is 50 years old and has 120 units, according to building records.

There have not been any major building violations or complaints listed against the building, according to city building records. Past minor violations were rectified by the property and there were no structural violations listed.

Apartment fire impacts Muslim and immigrant community

The building where the fire occurred housed a largely Muslim population, Adams said, with many immigrants from Gambia, a small nation on the east coast of Africa.

The mayor said that one priority will be to make sure that Islamic funeral and burial rites are respected. Another will be to seek Muslim leaders to connect with residents.

The names of people who request government assistance will not be turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Adams said.

"We want people to be comfortable in coming forward, and it's imperative that we connect with those on the ground to make sure they get that message and that word out," Adams said.

Christina Farrell, first deputy commissioner of NYC emergency management, told CNN's Phil Mattingly Sunday that residents who lived in the apartment building are now being housed at a middle school next door.

"We have all the residents here. We've been able to give them food, a warm space, water, any short-term needs that they had. People brought their pets and so we are in the process of finding people shelter this evening," Farrell said. "We work with the Red Cross, we have hotel rooms and have other resources available. And so we will be making sure every family has a safe, warm space to sleep in tonight."

A service center will be set up Monday, Farrell said.

"We'll be hopeful that many of them will be able to go back into their apartment in the coming days," she said. "But for the people that are out long-term, we will work with them and the state to get them appropriate housing."

Hochul, appearing at a press conference Sunday, said she met with survivors of the fire, including a mother who was her family's sole survivor.

"It's impossible to go into that room, where scores of families who are in such grief, who are in pain, and to see it in the mother's eyes as I held her, who lost her entire family," she said.

As she prepares her new budget this week, Hochul said she will establish a compensation fund to help provide the victims of the fire with money for housing, burial costs and other necessities.

"Tonight is a night of tragedy and pain, and tomorrow we begin to rebuild," Hochul said. "We rebuild their lives and give them hope, especially those who came all the way from Africa [from] Gambia in search of a better life right here in this great borough of the Bronx."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also spoke at the conference and said numerous forms of assistance are being examined on the federal level and will include housing and tax assistance as well as and immigration assistance, "so families can be reunited."