Mass Casualty Event Fire in the Bronx was a Diversity Fire, All the Way, Up to and Including the Cover Story

By Nicholas Stix

On Sunday, January 9, 2022, a fire killed eight kids and nine adults in an apartment building at 333 East 181st Street in the Bronx. (Initial reports of 19 dead have since been downgraded.) At least 33 people were treated, with eight still being hospitalized. (Early reports claimed that over 60 people were harmed, but those numbers have since disappeared.)

Space heaters that had been running 24/7 for days caught fire in a duplex apartment, and when the father, Mamadou Wague, got his eight children and wife out, he left the apartment door wide open. Someone from his family or another, also left a stairwell door wide open, and the smoke got sucked through the open doors, which caused all the deaths, injuries, and destruction.

Already on the day of the fire, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro was ready with a cover story: The doors malfunctioned.

The doors functioned fine, until one or more African “immigrants,” living high off the hog off of Whites, didn’t bother to close them.

Mamadou Wague

“Stricken Mamadou Wague, 47, said he didn’t even realize the door was left open until he was told about it by fire officials later.” [N.S.: Note the passive voice.]

“Authorities said earlier Monday that the apartment door was supposed to be self-closing but may have 'malfunctioned,' sending smoke soaring through the 19-story structure and killing at least 17 people.

[N.S.: New York actually passed a law in 2018, mandating that all apartment doors in structures with three or more units have to be automatically self-closing.]

“‘When you push the door all the way to the edge, it didn’t close by itself,’ said Wague, who was in the apartment with his wife and eight kids when the fire started.

“‘It’s very sad. I don’t even remember the door staying open because all I could think about was getting everybody out,’ the dad said.”

[“Bronx fire dad’s anguish: I pushed door so far open saving my daughter, it stuck,” by Reuven Fenton and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, new york post, January 11, 2022 8:35 a.m.]

Well, there you have it. How can you expect someone who’s trying to save his own family, which has caused a fire, from caring about whether anyone else lives or dies?

More Gambian "immigrant" neighbors from 333 East 181st Street

By the way, Mamadou Wague did not have the excuse that his luxury duplex was being cheated out of heat, which happens in many public housing projects in the city. But he wasn’t getting the sweltering heat he was used to in Gambia.

“Many of those in the building were Muslim immigrants from the West African nation of The Gambia. The country's ambassador told cnn the building had been a beloved home for many such immigrants over the years.

“‘I think a lot of Gambians who came here, they stayed there before they moved anywhere else. This was kind of a first port of call, this building. It’s a building Gambians have a lot of attachment to,’ said Ambassador Dawda Docka Fadera, who traveled from Washington to New York after learning of the fire.

“The families in the apartment complex and neighborhood told cnn they were devastated. Some are still searching for loved ones, and all are desperate for answers.”

[Translations of “answers”=money.]

Media stories emphasized the doors fairy tale, claimed that the building had not been properly maintained, and fabulated that the smoke alarms hadn’t worked (they worked just fine). They were clearly setting the stage for gazillion-dollar lawsuits, in which the same grifters who have been sponging off of White American taxpayers to the tune of millions, will enrich themselves to the tune of additional millions, including Mamadou Wague.

Residents ignored the fire alarms.

“Daisy Mitchell, a 10th-floor resident who had just moved in to the building, was one of those who fled to safety. She told cnn's Brianna Keilar her husband first smelled smoke and noticed the fire.

“‘The alarm was going off for a while so I didn’t pay it no mind,’ she said. ‘Then, when he opened the door and I went out there, I passed out — it was devastating, it was like really scary.’

“‘I went to the stairs, I opened the door, it just blew me back [to] the house. If I’d stayed out there for another three seconds, I would have been gone too.’

“It was common for fire alarms to go off in the building, 10th-floor resident Chanasia Hunter told cnn affiliate wabc.

[N.S.: Fire alarms don’t just “go off,” any more than guns do.]

“‘So, when you don’t know that it’s a fire, like, you know, how would you supposed to know if it’s a fire or if it’s always going off?’ said Hunter, adding she got a call from a resident on the third floor warning her of the fire, then a knock on her door telling her and her family to get out….”

[Tenant Karen Dejesus said] “You’re being trapped somewhere. As you see, we have no fire escapes, obviously the building was not fireproof like we thought it was.”

[“Space heater sparked fire in the Bronx that killed 17 people, including 8 children,” by Susannah Cullinane, Brynn Gingras, Bonney Kapp, Mirna Alsharif and Amir Vera, cnn, Updated 7:53 P.M. ET, Mon January 10, 2022]

All of the deaths were from smoke inhalation, due to tenants’ negligence. Nobody burned up, so I suppose the building remained within the definition of “fireproof.”

However, no building can be adequately protected against primitive, ghetto people.

The city has underscored that illegal aliens from the building have nothing to fear from ICE; the city will break immigration law, as it always does.

Sunday’s fire reminded some people of another mass casualty fire in the Bronx from March, 2007, when one adult and three children perished in a private house that was home to 22 Moslems (17 of them children), all related.

The stories I was able to find on the Web lacked basic information from the original ones I’d read in the local dailies. The home belonged to two brothers, at least one of whom was a bigamist. The bigamist forced his less favored wife to stay in the basement with the children they had together, but refused to provide them with any heat. Thus, she bought the space heater which “caused” the fire, when it was placed too close to a mattress. (She or the children likely misused it.) The wife and her children in the basement all perished. Two smoke alarms firemen found had no batteries in them.

Instead of being prosecuted for bigamy, for causing the situation that led to so many deaths, or having his immigration status investigated, the husband was treated like a “victim” by the New York media and politicians.

[“Space heater blamed in Bronx fire,” by Jim Fitzgerald, Associated Press/Seattle Times, Originally published March 9, 2007 at 12:00 a.m., updated March 9, 2007 at 2:02 a.m.]

333 East 181st Street, the Bronx: the building where Mamadou Wague's negligence caused 17 deaths and dozens of injuries

According to a 40th anniversary report on the building that had the fire on Sunday, the 120 unit, 19-story building went up in 1973, was built as a federal “low-income” project, and was a huge “success”... until people started moving in. (Translation of “low-income”: Built entirely out of Whites’ tax money, but serving only black and Hispanic deadbeats.) It quickly became the sort of thing the media didn’t want to talk about, as the building was taken hostage by black and Hispanic gangs, and tenants routinely threw garbage and other debris out their windows, which became known as “air mail.” Tenants on the lower floors could not use their balconies, as they became too dangerous, due to the “air mail.”

The original architects participated in the commemorative study.

Note that the apartments, which were for people who would be paying little or no rent, ranged from studios to five-bedrooms duplexes, with beautifully landscaped grounds, and special features for kids (which were soon eliminated). And some of the tenants did love the place. In 2013, a tenant named Rafael, 29, who had lived there for his entire life, showed off the tattoo he had on his arm of the building.

Courtyard, as it existed in 2013

The theory was that beautiful landscaping would make for a “successful” building, but nobody defined success. The black, long-time superintendent was less starry-eyed.

“After discussing the various design elements at both sites, Steven Webster, the superintendent of 24 years who took us around on the tour, was incredulous, as if the building was created for someone he’d never met: ‘Since you built this building: who did you really think was going to live here?’”

[“The Landscape of Housing: Twin Parks Northwest 40 Years On,” by Juliette Spertus and Susanne Schindler, urban omnibus, Nov 06, 2013.]

The authors and architects were unpersuaded by Webster, whom they concluded lacked vision.

Postscript: I left several messages at outfits involved in the refugee resettlement racket, to see if any of the tenants were rapefugees, but nobody picked uyp, or returned my calls.