"Firefighters were dispatched to a six-story apartment building on 35th St. near 31st Ave. in Astoria after a fire broke out on the third floor just before 11 p.m. on Thursday. A woman in her 90s and a 61-year-old woman were removed from an apartment and taken to Mount Sinai Queens, where the older woman died. Her name was not immediately disclosed. The younger woman was listed in critical condition at the hospital, officials said. The fire was put out by 11:30 p.m."
"Less than two hours later, another fire occurred in a six-story building in Brooklyn, just a block from Prospect Park on Winthrop St. near Flatbush Ave. in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Firefighters battling the 12:50 a.m. blaze found an 81-year-old woman dead inside a third floor apartment, officials said. The fire was extinguished by 2 a.m. The Fire Marshals were trying to determine the causes of all three fires."
Two back-to-back fires erupted late Thursday in New York City, killing two elderly women and critically injuring another. A third-floor blaze in a six-story Astoria building just before 11 p.m. led to the removal of a woman in her 90s and a 61-year-old woman; the nonagenarian died at Mount Sinai Queens while the 61-year-old remained in critical condition. Less than two hours later, a 12:50 a.m. fire in a six-story building in Prospect Lefferts Gardens left an 81-year-old woman dead. Earlier overnight, a Sheepshead Bay blaze produced an unidentified fatality. Fire Marshals are investigating the causes of all three fires. The incidents follow a recent spike in senior fire deaths.
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