A raging fire killed an elderly man inside a Queens apartment building on Sunday evening, after firefighters\u2019 efforts to extinguish the flames were slowed down by a car blocking a fire hydrant, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Nearly 90 EMS personnel and firefighters rushed to respond to the blaze that broke out at the apartment complex on 78th Street between Broadway and Woodside Avenue in Elmhurst just before 7:20 p.m., according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n
Firefighters discovered an 83-year-old man who was unconscious and unresponsive with severe injuries during their search operations, according to police and fire officials.<\/p>\n
Nearly 90 EMS and FDNY personnel rushed to the Elmhurst apartment fire. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
The man was taken to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, the NYPD said. <\/p>\n
He was found in the rear bedroom of an apartment unit on the sixth floor of the building, where there was \u201cheavy fire\u201d and \u201cheavy smoke conditions on the whole top floor,\u201d FDNY Deputy Chief Jeff Meister said at the scene.<\/p>\n
As smoke-eaters rushed to put out the flames and try to rescue the man, units encountered a frozen fire hydrant and another blocked by a vehicle in front of the building.<\/p>\n
Parked cars that block fire hydrants \u201cslow everything down,\u201d said FDNY Deputy Chief Jeff Meister. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
Firefighters discovered an 83-year-old man who was unconscious and unresponsive with severe injuries during their search operations, according to police and fire officials. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems to be an issue throughout the city where residents are parking on hydrants,\u201d Meister said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen vehicles are parked at a hydrant, it definitely impedes our operations. It slows everything down. Getting water on the fire fast is a critical part of our jobs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, authorities said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A raging fire killed an elderly man inside a Queens apartment building on Sunday evening, after firefighters\u2019 efforts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22987,194,544,57,9,56,63,65,64,122,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-134896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-elmhurst","9":"tag-fdny","10":"tag-fires","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-queens","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134896","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=134896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}