Eight people, including a child, are injured in a house fire in the Bronx

BRONX – Eight people, including a child, were injured after a fire broke out in a Bronx apartment, police said.

It happened Saturday night around 5:40 p.m. on E. 199th Street between Jerome Avenue and Grand Concourse.

Investigators are working on the theory that e-bikes may have caused this fire.

Neighbors reported hearing a loud explosion coming from one of the apartments around 6 a.m

Moments later, a woman ran naked down the stairs.

The property manager said he tried to keep e-bikes out of the building, but now suspects an apartment is being used as an unauthorized e-bike repair shop.

When firefighters arrived, they found several people living in the building on the fire escape.

FOX 5 NYs Duarte Geraldino spoke to a young woman who ran out of her apartment with her ten-month-old baby.

“When I opened the door, it was like a movie,” Samantha Santos said. “We just saw crazy black smoke rising and the lady who had done this in her house came to us naked. She said, ‘Oh, my kitchen exploded. Everything damaged my whole house, it flooded. My child’s bed is ruined, everything.’ ‘I have nothing because my apartment is gone.’”

The building has more than 30 residential units and at least 10 apartments were damaged by the fire.

The most seriously injured victim was a child who was taken to hospital after complaining of chest pains.

Nobody is dead.