{"id":129395,"date":"2026-02-10T22:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129395\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:51:07","slug":"17-day-old-infant-missing-following-nyc-home-inferno-that-killed-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129395\/","title":{"rendered":"17-day-old infant missing following NYC home inferno that killed woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

A newborn is missing nearly 24 hours after an inferno tore through a Queens home,<\/a> killing one person and leaving seven others injured \u2014 including one man whose \u201cskin was melting off his face and the body.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 17-day-old baby girl was one of nine victims who were caught in a home on Dongan Avenue between Poyer Street and Broadway in Elmhurst when the raging fire erupted at 6:45 p.m. Monday, according to sources. <\/p>\n

Heartbreaking photographs show the gutted four-story building, with most of its floors reduced to burnt rubble.<\/p>\n

A four-story Queens home was reduced to rubble after an inferno broke out on Monday. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

One woman was killed and a man severely injured in the blaze. A baby is still missing and others suffered smoke inhalation and minor burns. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n

The fire was so intense that it engulfed a portion of its neighboring homes \u2014 leaving Lucy Thinzar, 27, with little more than the clothes on her back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m lucky I\u2019m alive. I need to reset, again, my life. I came with one piece of luggage in my hand three years ago from Myanmar and now I have one piece of luggage,\u201d she told The Post Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Thinzar arrived home from work to witness the blaze consuming the buildings and FDNY members helping an extremely injured young man, also from Myanmar, out of the fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe looked bad. The skin was melting off his face and the body,\u201d Thinzar recalled as she touched her cheeks with both hands. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe clothes was on his body but we could see his skin \u2026 It is going to [stay] in my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Firefighters combed through the rubble Tuesday. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old man suffered burns to 99% of his body, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n

He was rushed to Harlem Hospital and is in severe, life-threatening condition, officials said. <\/p>\n

Another resident, a 34-year-old woman, was found dead at the scene, according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n

The 22-year-old victim suffered burns on 99% of his body. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n

Six others, including a 10-year-old girl, were treated for minor burns and smoke inhalation but are expected to survive.<\/p>\n

Four firefighters also suffered minor injuries battling the blaze, including one who fell through the deteriorating floor to waist level and was pulled to safety. <\/p>\n

The fire was contained around 1 a.m. Tuesday, but officials worked through the night and the following day to secure the crumbling home and comb through the debris.<\/p>\n

The infant girl had not been found as of Tuesday afternoon, officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m lucky I\u2019m alive,\u201d said neighbor Lucy Thinzar. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like this in my whole life, never, never \u2014 you see all those flames and the heat coming right in front of you,\u201d said a 79-year-old neighbor whose building abutted the destroyed home.<\/p>\n

The woman recalled first seeing heavy black smoke emitting from the house before it erupted in flames that quickly engulfed the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe flame was so intense, my window [pane] got hot, it even cracked from the heat,\u201d she said of her St. James Place home.<\/p>\n

She noted that the alleys surrounding the home were \u201cfull of junk,\u201d but fire officials have not yet said what caused or accelerated the massive blaze. <\/p>\n

The FDNY said the fire broke out on the first floor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A newborn is missing nearly 24 hours after an inferno tore through a Queens home, killing one person…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[194,544,57,13082,9,56,63,65,64,122,58],"class_list":["post-129395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-fdny","tag-fires","tag-metro","tag-missing-children","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-queens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129395","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=129395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}