Broadway Actress Dies in Apartment Fire After ‘Good Wife’ Star’s Attempted Rescue

Broadway Extra Dies in Accommodation Blaze Afterwards ‘Good Wife’ Star’s Attempted Rescue, Broadway extra Vivien Eng, best accepted for her role in 1996’s “The King and I” revival, died on Thursday of injuries suffered in a blaze at her New York City high-rise accommodation on Wednesday. She was 51.

“The Good Wife” amateur and Eng’s neighbor, Dylan Baker, attempted to accomplishment her, but was clumsy to ability her through the bonfire in her accommodation on the 33rd attic of the Manhattan Plaza architecture in the city’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. He alleged 911 anon afterwards and abrupt his ancestors out of the building.

“When I opened the door, it was a full-fledged fire,” he told NBC New York. “It was terrifying.”

Baker noticed bonfire advancing from his Eng’s accommodation while abiding home about 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

“I banged on the aperture and shouted her name,” Baker said. “I opened her aperture — I was afraid to acquisition it accessible — and there were bonfire everywhere, and smoke was advancing out at me so I had to bang the door.”

Firefighters begin Eng benumbed on the attic of her apartment, according to NBC. She was accepted to the bake assemblage at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and died the afterward day of burns to the arch and torso, as able-bodied as smoke inhalation.

According to DNAinfo, the blaze was sparked from “smoking materials” that hadn’t been appropriately extinguished.

Eng danced the role of Eliza in a London awakening of “The King and I” and the role of George in an all-embracing bout of the musical. She appeared on the TV appearance “Law and Order” and the films “Precious” and “Away We Go.” 
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