Thanksgiving fire leaves infant, five others in critical condition

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Fire-fighters resuscitated 8-month-old Josiah Alexis who had stopped breathing for five minutes in the aftermath of a fire at an apartment building on President Street at Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Alexis was placed on a ventilator along with his mom, Justine, 20, Justine’s brother Jonathan, 22, and her brother-in-law, George DeJesus, at New York Presbyterian Cornell Weill Medical Center.

The fire was caused by attempts to extinguish a burning mattress that caught fire from a cigarette.

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