Twenty-one firefighters were hospitalized after fighting a four-alarm fire in building in New York Saturday morning. The fire broke out at a six-story building in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood at about 7.30am Saturday. According to the FDNY Deputy Assistant Chief Christopher Bilz, when the first FDNY units arrived within four minutes of receiving the call, the fire was considered 'advanced' on the first floor of the building. The FDNY said that 200 fire and EMS personnel - 39 units - arrived at the scene to battle the four-alarm fire and get it under control around 10.10am. There were no civilian injuries, but 21 firefighters were injured, the New York Post reported. Four firefighters were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries and 17 others were taken to other hospitals with minor injuries. The fire was said to have started in an empty apartment on the first floor of the building
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