FLUSHING, Queens (WABC) — Four people are dead, including a child, after a multi-alarm fire ripped through a building in Queens on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The four-alarm fire broke out just before 12:30 p.m. at a mixed-used building on College Point Boulevard between Avery and Pople avenues in Flushing.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Monday, the FDNY confirmed that two adults and one child were killed in the fire. Police later confirmed a fourth victim had died.<\/p>\n
Two people are currently in critical condition at Jacobi Medical Center, while four others are in stable condition.<\/p>\n
“This is a difficult and tragic day. There were several victims of this fire. I can confirm for you at this point that there were three fatalities,” said FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore during a press conference earlier on Monday.<\/p>\n
Officials says three people jumped from the third floor. Another person was rescued from the second floor.<\/p>\n
“We noticed three jumpers, three people that jumped from the upper floors, three victims who was also the victim trapped at the second floor, which is reported to be a portable ladder,” FDNY Chief of Fire Operations Kevin Woods said.<\/p>\n
Resident Vivian Marie described to Eyewitness News what she saw during the fire.<\/p>\n
“I live on, like on the corner, and I just started smelling smoke. So I thought it was my building. But I checked and it wasn’t us,” Marie said.<\/p>\n
Neighbors came outside to see EMS performing CPR to severely-burned victims in the street.<\/p>\n
“I think they were trying to give him CPR, he was screaming and eventually he stopped. I think he was in shock,” Marie said.<\/p>\n
Five firefighters were also treated and taken to area hospitals in stable condition.<\/p>\n
As firefighters rushed up the stairs, officials say the stairwell collapsed under them.<\/p>\n
“As our engine companies were moving in the first floor and up the stairs to the second floor, the stairs collapsed and those two members were trapped in the stairs,” Woods said.<\/p>\n
First responders later extricated the firefighters who fell through the stairs.<\/p>\n
Over 230 fire and EMS personnel responded to the scene to help assist and battle the fire.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n
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