Correction: E-Bike Battery-Fatal Fire story

Apr 10, 2023, 3:11 PM | Updated: Apr 11, 2023, 8:30 am

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published April 10, 2023, about a fatal e-bike fire that killed two children at a home in New York City, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number of children who were in the apartment when the blaze began. There were five children, not six. Three escaped.

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Correction: E-Bike Battery-Fatal Fire story