Three people were killed, and more than a dozen other people were injured, in a fire in Queens Monday afternoon, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n
Just before 12:30 p.m., a call was made for a fire at 44-49 College Point Boulevard between Avey and Pople avenues in a three-story apartment building in Flushing, officials said.<\/p>\n
According to Chief of Fire Operations Kevin Woods, three victims jumped from an upper floor. Another victim trapped on the second floor was rescued via a portable ladder by the fire department, and two members of the FDNY had to be rescued when a staircase collapsed in the building, Woods said.<\/p>\n
Two adults and one child were killed in the fire, Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said. According to the FDNY, two other individuals are in critical condition at Jacobi Hospital; three people with serious or non-life-threatening injuries were transported to Booth Memorial Hospital, and two civilians suffered minor injuries. Six firefighters with minor injuries are also being treated at area hospitals, officials said.<\/p>\n
According to fire officials, the fire is under control but there is heavy damage to the apartment building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people were killed, and more than a dozen other people were injured, in a fire in Queens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[387,25,313,9,24,12,63,58207,308,122,124,123,27],"class_list":["post-165398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-deanna-garcia","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-on-air-ticker-article","tag-public-safety","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165398","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=165398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}