A five-alarm fire is burning in the Bronx, and several people have been hospitalized. Firefighters are on the scene along Wallace Avenue in the Allerton section, working to get the intense flames and smoke under control.

At least seven people were injured when a fifth-alarm fire sparked in a Bronx apartment building on Friday, according to the FDNY. It broke out on Wallace Avenue in Allerton around 1:40 a.m., fire officials said.

A devastating five-alarm fire broke out at an apartment building in The Bronx on Friday, with nearly 200 firefighters arriving to the scene

A wind-whipped 5-alarm fire is burning through an apartment building in the Allerton section of the Bronx. The fire broke out in the upper floors of the building on Wallace Avenue just before 1:45 a.m.