Dominican Fashion Journalist, Mother Killed in Manhattan Fire
The blaze spread through the building’s only stairwell and left five people fighting for their lives, officials said.
- Early Saturday, a fire in an Inwood apartment building on Dyckman Street killed three people, including 49-year-old fashion journalist Yolaine Díaz and her 73-year-old mother, Ana Mirtha Lantigua.
- The fire started on the building's lower levels and spread rapidly through the interior stairwell; Marty Mejia of the New York Fire Foundation emphasized that leaving doors open allowed smoke and flames to consume the structure.
- More than 100 residents were displaced and 14 injured in the blaze, which required more than 200 firefighters to contain; Díaz worked as a former fashion and beauty editor for People en Español.
- The city filed a lawsuit against the building's landlord last week, seeking to "impose civil penalties against them for failing to repair dangerous conditions" at the adjacent property, 209 Dyckman Street.
- Former editor-in-chief Armando Correa remembered Díaz, stating, "Yolaine had a unique authenticity and intensity," while the American Red Cross continues providing logistical support to displaced residents.
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Dominican journalist Yolaine Díaz died in the early morning of last Monday after being caught in a fire in an apartment building in New York. The former editor...
Seasoned fashion journalist, elderly mom killed in NYC apartment inferno
Yolaine Diaz, 48 – who notably served as the digital fashion and beauty editor for PEOPLE en Español – was killed when the early Monday blaze ravaged the six-floor walk-up on Dyckman Street in Inwood, the outlet reported.
Fashion journalist Yolaine Díaz, 48, collaborator of "People en Español", and her mother, Ana Mirtha Lantigua, 73, are among the three people killed in a fire that hit, in the early morning of Monday, a residential building in the neighborhood of Inwood, Manhattan, New York. Understand: Millennial shrine in Tokyo becomes a destination for fans in search of luck to get tickets to shows Which show would you like to see on Copacabana Beach in 2027?…
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