Later today, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams will announce a borough-wide fire safety education campaign, following a fatal fire Saturday in Midwood that claimed the lives of seven siblings, aged five to 16, from the Sassoon family. His effort will include multilingual outreach and the distribution of free smoke detectors, both of which will be on display at the press conference. Additionally, Borough President Adams will call for the creation of a burn center in Brooklyn which, despite being home to the fourth-largest population in the United States, currently has no such facility; the Sassoon family’s mother and one of her daughters are currently in critical condition at burn centers in the Bronx and Staten Island, respectively, after sustaining severe burns and smoke inhalation.

Borough President Adams will be joined by local elected officials and Jewish leaders, who have been deeply impacted by this loss in their community, outside of FDNY headquarters at MetroTech Center, where all will speak about the need to emphatically respond to this tragedy.

(YWN Desk – NYC)