Holiday Tradition Sparked Fatal Brooklyn House Fire

An "unattended lit menorah" was the source of a fire that killed a Brooklyn woman and her three children during Hanukkah, the New York City Fire Department said. Around 2 a.m. on Monday, a fire tore through the first floor of a three-floor home in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. Aliza Azan, 39; her sons Moshe, 11, and Yitzah, 7; and her daughter Henrietta, 3, were killed in the fire, police confirmed. Azan’s husband and four other family members escaped the fire but have been hospitalized, officials said, declining to name them.