By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A family of five, including three children as young as 15 months, died in a blaze that filled an apartment with thick black smoke and kept the victims from escaping through the front door, fire officials said on Sunday.
A 10-year-old boy who survived was in critical condition Sunday at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where he had been placed in a hyperbaric chamber that supplies emergency oxygen to burn victims, officials said.
Neighbors said the family was originally from the Dominican Republic.
The fire broke out at dawn Saturday in the family's seventh-floor apartment in a public housing complex in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. The boy was found with two other family members in a back bedroom, while the rest of the family sought refuge in a full bathtub and underneath a bathroom sink, officials said.
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