{"id":165373,"date":"2026-03-16T20:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165373\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:18:36","slug":"three-dead-after-four-alarm-fire-rips-through-a-multi-family-queens-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165373\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead after four-alarm fire rips through a multi-family Queens home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_2899.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Authorities say three people are dead, including a child, after a four-alarm fire tore through a multi-family residence in Flushing on Monday, March 16.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Three dead after four-alarm fire rips through a multi-family Queens home 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say three people are dead, including a child, after a four-alarm fire tore through a multi-family residence in Flushing on Monday, March 16.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Three people are dead, including a child, after a wind-driven four-alarm fire tore through a multi-family residence in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/flushing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Flushing<\/a>\u00a0on Monday, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY received a call just before 12:30 p.m. of a fire on the second and third floors at 44-49 College Point Blvd. and fire crews were on the scene four minutes later. As the fire spread through five apartments on the second and third floors, a fourth alarm was transmitted bringing 74 units to the block between Avery Avenue and Pople Avenue with a total of 231 firefighters and EMS personnel to the scene, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were injured after jumping from windows on the top floor. Three people were found dead, including a juvenile, after they became trapped in a second-story apartment. As firefighters were climbing to the second floor, the staircase collapsed trapping two firefighters who were extricated and rushed to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/three-dead-fire-rips-queens-home\/attachment\/dsc_2865\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-137837997 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137837997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_2865.jpg\" alt=\"Authorities say three people are dead, including a child, after a four-alarm fire tore through a multi-family residence in Flushing on Monday, March 16.&#10;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"884\" title=\"Three dead after four-alarm fire rips through a multi-family Queens home 2\"  \/><\/a>Authorities say three people are dead, including a child, after a four-alarm fire tore through a multi-family residence in Flushing on Monday, March 16.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/three-dead-fire-rips-queens-home\/attachment\/dsc_9136\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-137838001 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137838001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC_9136.jpg\" alt=\"Authorities say three people are dead, including a child, after a four-alarm fire tore through a multi-family residence in Flushing on Monday, March 16.&#10;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"Three dead after four-alarm fire rips through a multi-family Queens home 3\"  \/><\/a>Authorities say three people are dead, including a child, after a four-alarm fire tore through a multi-family residence in Flushing on Monday, March 16.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities say three people are dead, including a child, after a four-alarm fire tore through a multi-family residence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[194,545,648,9,24,63,613,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-165373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-fdny","tag-fire","tag-flushing","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pm-newsletter","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165373","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=165373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}