SPECTRUM NY 1: Funeral Set For Sunday To Remember 15 Victims Of Bronx Fire

THE BRONX: A funeral will be held Sunday for 15 of the 17 victims of last weekend's deadly apartment building fire in the Bronx.

“It’s important to go,” said Mahamed Keita of Fordham Heights. “Everybody should go to pay their respects. I encourage everybody to go!”

For Keita, who was hospitalized last Sunday, after inhaling toxic smoke that spread to all 19 floors at Twins Park North West, permanent housing and other aspects about his future remain unclear.

But what Keita knows for sure is that he will be at the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx Sunday morning in the Concourse section of the borough to pay his respects to more than a dozen fellow tenants and neighbors who lost their lives nearly a week ago due to smoke inhalation.

“Bodies, right in front of you,” Keita said. “It’s too much. It’s going to be chaos there tomorrow! People are going to be emotional. It’s going to be too much to take in.“

The NYPD has put barriers in place, cleared cars from the street and secured the area surrounding the Islamic Cultural Center in order to fit all the people who are expected to pay their respects to victims of last Sunday’s horrific apartment fire in Fordham Heights....

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