{"id":153849,"date":"2026-03-05T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153849\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:12:11","slug":"firefighters-battle-early-morning-blaze-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153849\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle early morning blaze in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 A massive fire broke out at a vacant two-story building in Queens early Thursday morning, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire, which broke out on the top floor of a two-story building at 71-57 70th Street, was reported at around 1:12 a.m.<\/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\">Fire officials say the building was under construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">141 Fire and EMS personnel responded to the scene. The fire was under control by 3:03 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One firefighter was transported to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials are investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ben Mitchell is a digital content producer from Vermont who has covered both local and international news since 2021. He joined PIX11 in 2024. See more of his work <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/ben-mitchell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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":"QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 A massive fire broke out at a vacant two-story building in Queens early Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[30519,9,24,63,122,124,123,5372],"class_list":{"0":"post-153849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-massive-fire","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-queens","13":"tag-queens-headlines","14":"tag-queens-news","15":"tag-thursday-morning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153849","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=153849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}