86人死亡且仍在增加：纽约市火灾死亡人数今年几乎翻倍本周布鲁克林一场大火造成六人死亡，使人们重新关注飙升的死亡人数，并引发了关于电动自行车电池是否发挥了作用的质疑。
86 Deaths and Counting: N.Y.C. Fire Fatalities Have Nearly Doubled This Year The Brooklyn blaze that killed six people this week renewed focus on the soaring death toll and raised questions about whether e-bike batteries have played a role.
在本周日落公园发生致六人死亡的火灾之前，在火灾死亡人数飙升的一年里，纽约市周围已有数十个其他家庭遭受重创。
Before a fire killed six people in Sunset Park this week, dozens of other families around New York City had already been devastated during a year of soaring fire deaths.
5月，上曼哈顿的一位时尚作家及其母亲；2月，皇后区埃尔姆赫斯特地下室里一名17天大的女婴及其母亲；3月，法拉盛一名3岁女童，当时同一公寓楼内的其他人从窗户跳楼逃生。
A fashion writer and her mother in Upper Manhattan in May. A 17-day-old baby girl and her mother in a basement in Elmhurst in February. A 3-year-old in Flushing in March as other people in her apartment building leaped from the windows.
据消防局统计，今年以来纽约市已有86人死于火灾，而去年同期为44人。其中包括上周在布朗克斯一场公寓火灾中遇难的四名家庭成员，起因是锂离子电池在夜间起火——这一公共安全隐患今年在全市蔓延。
Eighty-six people have died in fires in New York City so far this year, compared with 44 in the same time period last year, according to the Fire Department. That includes four family members who died in an apartment fire in the Bronx last week after a lithium ion battery caught fire overnight — a public safety hazard that has proliferated across the city this year.
“这仍然是我们政府关注的重中之重，”市长扎赫兰·马姆达尼周五表示，并补充说他正在研究针对电池火灾的额外立法和政策。“我们每天都在讨论这件事，因为正如我们所见，它会夺走纽约人的生命。”日落公园火灾的起因——这是今年最致命的一起——尚未确定，尽管现场有烧焦的电动自行车，市长和市议会议长周四在谈论这场大火时都提到了电动自行车电池。
“It continues to be a major source of concern and a priority of focus for our administration,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Friday, adding that he was looking into additional legislation and policy regarding battery fires. “This is something that we’re talking about every single day, because as we have seen, it can take the lives of New Yorkers.”The cause of the fire in Sunset Park — the deadliest this year — has not been determined, though there were charred electric bicycles at the scene and both the mayor and the City Council speaker spoke about e-bike batteries as they discussed the fire on Thursday.
导致火灾和火灾死亡人数上升的一个主要驱动力是电动自行车的普及率增加，其中许多由可充电锂离子电池供电。今年以来，锂离子电池相关火灾已造成70人受伤、9人死亡；其中1人死亡源于2023年首先导致受害者受伤的一场大火。今年消防局已就与这些电池相关的火灾展开456起调查。
A major driving force behind the rise in fires and fire deaths is the increased prevalence of e-bikes, many of which are powered by chargeable lithium-ion batteries. Lithium ion battery-related fires have injured 70 people and killed nine so far this year; one death is from a fire that first injured the victim in 2023. There have been 456 Fire Department investigations this year into blazes related to those batteries.
今年因电池相关火灾造成的死亡人数代表着一种令人担忧的上升趋势，此前几年死亡人数一直在下降。根据在最近一次市监督听证会上作出的证词，2023年有18人死亡，2024年有6人死亡。
The deaths from battery-related fires this year represent a concerning rise after several years in which fatalities declined. In 2023, there were 18 deaths, and in 2024, there were six, according to testimony given at a recent city oversight hearing on the topic.
据市议会称，在新冠疫情期间，电池驱动的微型交通工具的使用量激增，主要是因为它们被用于全市范围内的外卖配送。
According to the City Council, the use of battery-powered micro-mobility devices spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, largely because of their use in deliveries around the city.
周五，市议会议长朱莉·梅宁宣布将于11月20日举行监督听证会，审查住宅消防安全，此前布朗克斯区和日落公园相隔仅八天发生了两起致命火灾。听证会将审查现行法律，以了解其是否得到妥善执行，以及公众是否知晓储存锂离子电池的最佳做法。
On Friday, Julie Menin, the City Council speaker, announced an oversight hearing for Nov. 20 to examine residential fire safety after the deadly two fires just eight days apart in the Bronx and Sunset Park. The hearing would review the current laws to see whether they are being properly enforced and the public knows the best practices for storing lithium-ion batteries.
梅宁称这两起致命火灾是“令人心碎的悲剧，凸显了采取行动防止进一步生命损失的紧迫性”。州长凯西·霍楚尔周五在波多黎各举行的Somos会议上与马姆达尼一同出席时表示，她也将在州一级探索立法选项。
Ms. Menin called the two deadly fires “heartbreaking tragedies that underscore the urgent need for action to prevent further loss of life.”Gov. Kathy Hochul, appearing alongside Mr. Mamdani at the Somos conference in Puerto Rico on Friday, said that she would also explore legislative options at the state level.
霍楚尔说：“我希望能迎来这样一个时刻：我们醒来看到新闻，不再看到布鲁克林或布朗克斯又发生一起致命大火，家庭生活遭到毁灭性打击。必须有个答案。我们需要共同努力去寻找它。”但电池并非今年每起致命火灾的原因，也不是所有火灾死亡的因素。
“I want to find a time when we wake up to the news and do not see yet another fatal fire in Brooklyn or the Bronx and families’ lives devastated,” Ms. Hochul said. “There has to be an answer. We need to work hard together to find it.”But batteries did not account for every deadly fire this year, nor were they a factor in all fire deaths.
导致皇后区一名3岁儿童丧生的火灾还造成另外三人死亡，经认定系纵火并被裁定为谋杀。检方称，上曼哈顿那起导致时尚作家遇难的火灾，是由一名男子将燃烧的香烟扔在公寓楼入口外的一堆纸箱上引发的。
The fire that killed the 3-year-old in Queens also killed three other people and was determined to be arson and ruled a homicide. The Upper Manhattan fire that killed the fashion writer was caused by a man throwing his lit cigarette into a pile of cardboard boxes outside the apartment building’s entrance, prosecutors said.
官员表示，那场火灾还导致第三人死亡，由于人们逃生时敞开着门离开——这是一个常见错误——火势因此加剧。
That fire, which also killed a third person, was exacerbated by people leaving their doors open as they fled — a common mistake, officials said.
“我明白火灾现场情况令人恐惧，”市消防局局长莉莲·邦西尼奥雷当时表示，“我们不总能保持清醒头脑。但请关上门。确保所有家庭成员都知道也要这么做。”达娜·鲁宾斯坦和玛雅·科尔曼参与了报道。
“I know it’s a scary situation in a fire,” Lillian Bonsignore, the city’s fire commissioner, said at the time. “We’re not always thinking straight. But close the door. Make sure all your family members know to do the same.”Dana Rubinstein and Maia Coleman contributed reporting.
因编辑失误，本文早期版本的摘要错误陈述了今年纽约市火灾死亡人数与2025年同期相比的情况。实际是近乎两倍，而非超过两倍。
Because of an editing error, the summary on an earlier version of this article misstated the number of people who died in fires in New York City this year compared with the same period in 2025. It is nearly twice the number, not more than twice the number.
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