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Witnesses told the New York Daily News that the children,
aged five to 15, were trapped inside as their mother jumped out
of a window.
"I heard the mother yelling, 'My kids are in there! My kids are
in there! Get them out! Get them out!'" neighbor Nate Weber told
the Daily News.
"The mother was outside. She was burned," he said.
An adult and another child were taken to hospital in a critical
condition, New York Fire Department spokesman Michael Parrella
said.
More than 100 firefighters turned out to battle the blaze in
Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood just before 12:30 a.m. local
time and brought it under control within an hour, he added.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Andrew
Heavens)
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