{"id":165323,"date":"2026-03-16T19:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165323\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:31:29","slug":"three-dead-in-queens-fire-including-child-fdny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165323\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead in Queens fire, including child: FDNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people were killed, including a child, in a Queens fire Monday afternoon, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/fdny\/index.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FDNY<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Several other people was rushed to the hospital in critical condition from the scene, a storefront with two residential floors above it on College Point Blvd. near Avery Ave. in Flushing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a difficult and tragic day,\u201d\u00a0 FDNY Commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NYDailyNews\/posts\/lillian-bonsignore-the-first-former-ems-responder-ever-picked-to-run-the-fire-de\/1364056209083461\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lillian Bonsignore<\/a> said at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The fire erupted shortly before 12:30 p.m. It took firefighters a little over four minutes to respond. \u201cThey find heavy fire on the scene,\u201d Bonsignore said.<\/p>\n<p>Three people leapt from windows, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p>Two firefighters were trapped when when a stairwell inside the building collapsed. They were rescued by fellow firefighters and are in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people were killed, including a child, in a Queens fire Monday afternoon, the FDNY said. Several other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-165323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165323","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=165323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}