ABC News reports that the FDNY is speculating that it was an overloaded power strip that caused the fire in the Third Street condo early Wednesday morning. A father and his visiting daughter fled the flaming scene. Today he was in critical condition at the Cornell Burn Center due to burns but is expected to survive. His daughter was at Methodist Hospital in stable condition.

I walked by that building at around 7 PM this evening and saw that there were lights on in the other fourth floor apartment. The windows of the burned apartment are boarded up. The rest of the building is dark .Six families were displaced and there are 8 units in the building. I think that two of the apartments were unoccupied.