{"id":103319,"date":"2026-01-17T15:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/103319\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T15:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:13:28","slug":"9-injured-in-major-early-morning-fire-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/103319\/","title":{"rendered":"9 injured in major early morning fire in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RIDGEWOOD, Queens (PIX11) \u2014 A huge early morning fire destroyed a Queens building and sent nine people, including four firefighters, to the hospital on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire broke out around 4 a.m. along Flushing Avenue near Woodward and Metropolitan Avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:More Local News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> More Local News <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It quickly spread from the tire shop on the bottom to the second and third floors, as well as the building next door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The flames were so intense that the FDNY says they caused the building to partially collapse inside and forced firefighters to stay out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis was a deep-seated and stubborn fire caused by thousands of tires stored in the occupancy. It was a tire repair shop,\u201d fire officials said at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Red Cross is helping families displaced by the fire, though it\u2019s unclear exactly how many may have been impacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials say firefighters will be on scene for a while to put out the remaining flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIDGEWOOD, Queens (PIX11) \u2014 A huge early morning fire destroyed a Queens building and sent nine people, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[195,47155,47190,9,24,63,122,47189,124,123,2613],"class_list":{"0":"post-103319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-firefighters","9":"tag-flushing-avenue","10":"tag-morning-fire","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-building","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news","18":"tag-ridgewood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}