NYC fire that killed 3 sparked by homemade vape pens, officials say

A 36-year-old woman, 17-year-old girl, and 10-year-old girl died in the fire; the youngest died later from injuries sustained.

In the early hours of a Tuesday morning in East New York, Brooklyn, a fire fed by homemade vape pen assembly claimed the lives of a mother and her two daughters, leaving a father to reckon with what his hands had made. The tragedy arrived inside a city already counting its dead from lithium-ion battery fires — a quiet, modern danger that has come to live alongside people in their most private hours. As investigators weigh whether negligence crosses into crime, the loss asks an older question: how much risk do we carry home when we carry the tools of commerce into the places where our families

NYC fire that killed 3 sparked by homemade vape pens, officials say

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