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QUEENS – The body of a newborn baby who was reported missing after Monday night\u2019s deadly fire in Elmhurst <\/a>has been found, officials said.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The infant girl was found in the basement of the three-story home on Dongan Avenue.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Fire officials said crews were initially unable to reach her as they battled the blaze because conditions inside the building became too dangerous, and the structure had to be cleared.<\/p>\n With the help of heavy equipment and after removing large amounts of debris, responders located the child.<\/p>\n The body of the baby\u2019s 34-year-old mother was also recovered from the basement Monday night.<\/p>\n A 22-year-old man remains hospitalized in critical condition with severe burns.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n According to The New York Times<\/a>, the basement may have been an illegal apartment.\u00a0<\/p>\n Authorities have not confirmed that detail.<\/p>\n The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n The Source: This report is based on information from the FDNY.\u00a0<\/p>\n FDNY<\/a>Queens<\/a>Elmhurst<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS – The body of a newborn baby who was reported missing after Monday night\u2019s deadly fire in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[22987,194,9,24,12,56,63,848,122,124,123,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-131198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-elmhurst","9":"tag-fdny","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-organization","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news","19":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131198","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=131198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}