Woman and 17-year-old girl killed, 3 children hurt in suspicious New York apartment fire

NEW YORK (WCBS) — A woman and teenage girl are dead, and three other children are hospitalized following a suspicious fire overnight in East New York, Brooklyn. 

Police say someone set fire to the first floor stairs, and an accelerant was found in the hallway.

Firefighters responded around 2:15 a.m. to a three-story building on Fountain Avenue near Calhoun Street.