At least nine people were injured, including firefighters, in an early morning fire in the Ringwood section of Queens on Saturday, January 17, 2026, according to reports.<\/p>\n
The three-alarm fire occurred around 4 a.m. at an apartment building on Flushing Avenue, and reportedly began in a tire repair shop on the ground floor before quickly spreading to the second and third floors, ABC 7 reported<\/a>. More than 120 Fire Department of New York (FDNY) personnel responded to the scene.<\/p>\n \u201cUnits attempted an aggressive interior attack, but due to the volume of fire and a localized collapse in the rear of the store, we were forced to transition to an exterior operation,\u201d said FDNY Assistant Chief David Simms. Chief Simms told reporters that the deep-seated fire involved thousands of tires, with several members sustaining minor burns. Five residents of the building were also injured, the Daily News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least nine people were injured, including firefighters, in an early morning fire in the Ringwood section of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[194,47296,37147,13498,9,24,47297,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-103736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-fdny","9":"tag-fire-news","10":"tag-firefighter-injured","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news-feed","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103736","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=103736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}