{"id":166227,"date":"2026-03-17T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166227\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:54:08","slug":"3-year-old-girl-among-four-dead-in-queens-apartment-building-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166227\/","title":{"rendered":"3-year-old girl among four dead in Queens apartment building fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 3-year-old girl was among the four people killed as a raging fire tore through a Queens apartment building<\/a>, officials said.<\/p>\n

The toddler and two adults, a man and a\u00a0 62-year-old woman, died at the scene where the four-alarm fire broke out about 12:30 p.m. Monday in the building on College Point Blvd. at Avery Ave. in Flushing, officials said.<\/p>\n

A second man died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens<\/a>, officials said. One of the deceased men was 61, and the other was 57, but it wasn\u2019t immediately clear which one died at the hospital.<\/p>\n

Investigators are still trying to confirm the deceased victims\u2019 identities, so their ages could change.<\/p>\n

Seven other residents \u2014 three women and four men ranging in age from 33 to 67 \u2014 were treated for burns, smoke inhalation and other minor injuries.<\/p>\n

\"ThreeThree people were killed, including a child, in a blaze that tore through a home in Queens on Monday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

At least three of the victims \u201cjumped from upper floors,\u201d FDNY Chief of Operations Kevin Woods said at the scene Monday. A fourth victim was trapped on the second floor and had to be rescued by firefighters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a difficult and tragic day,\u201d\u00a0 FDNY Commissioner\u00a0Lillian Bonsignore<\/a>\u00a0said at the scene.<\/p>\n

When firefighters arrived, the entire building was engulfed in flames. Two firefighters moving from the first floor to the second floor fell through a burning staircase and had to be rescued by other members, he said.<\/p>\n

The owner of a nearby gas station heard what he described as an explosion and looked across the street to see people leaping from the building.\u201cSomething blew up. The whole roof was on fire. People were jumping from the building. Others were running across the street,\u201d Wadud Mohammad, 59, told the Daily News.<\/p>\n

\"(TheThree people were killed, including a child, in a blaze that tore through a home in Queens on Monday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fire Department was here immediately. I saw them take three people out. They weren\u2019t treating them. They were putting them right into the ambulance. I thought they were dead. I was terrified.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yibo Wang, 28, was returning home from the grocery store when she arrived to find the flames consuming her building.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were four people being carried out. One woman was unconscious and on the floor. One of the men being carried out, his head was covered in blood,\u201d said Wang.<\/p>\n

One woman was overheard shouting, \u201cNo, my baby, my baby! I want to see my baby!\u201d as rescuers attempted to treat her.<\/p>\n

At one point, the woman leaped off a gurney and fought her way past medics as she ran back toward the burning building, only for firefighters to drag her away as she screamed, \u201cI want to see my baby!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ThreeThree people were killed, including a child, in a blaze that tore through a home in Queens on Monday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

More than 230 firefighters and EMS members fought the fire and treated the wounded. Five firefighters, including the two that fell through the staircase, were hospitalized with minor injuries.<\/p>\n

FDNY officials said there were five apartments on the second and third floors. As many as a dozen people were living in the third-floor apartment where the fire started, a neighbor told the Daily News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe apartment was vacant. Nobody was supposed to be living there. They were squatting,\u201d said the neighbor, 30, who declined to share her name. \u201cThey were using one outlet and they had a ton of extension cords connected to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city Department of Buildings<\/a> placed a full vacate order on the property late Monday, noting the fire left massive holes in the roof and the sheetrock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 3-year-old girl was among the four people killed as a raging fire tore through a Queens apartment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166228,"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-166227","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\/166227","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=166227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}