{"id":166556,"date":"2026-03-17T20:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166556\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:09:31","slug":"4-dead-in-queens-fire-as-building-collapse-traps-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166556\/","title":{"rendered":"4 dead in Queens fire as building collapse traps firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-4-rIqeCb-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-815317\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEOS: Four people were killed in a four-alarm fire in Queens on Monday, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p>FDNY Chief of Fire Operations Kevin Woods said firefighters arrived to a heavy fire on all three floors of a multi-story building on College Point Boulevard in Flushing.<\/p>\n<p>Crews reported seeing three people jump from an upper floor as the flames spread through the building.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters performed CPR on the victims.<\/p>\n<p>The fire chief said another person was trapped on the second floor and was removed by firefighters using a portable ladder.<\/p>\n<p>As crews moved from the first floor up the stairs, the interior staircase collapsed, briefly trapping two firefighters before they were extricated.<\/p>\n<p>In total, nine people were injured, including two adults and one child, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Two victims were taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Five firefighters were treated at the scene and transported to hospitals in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>WNYW-TV FOX 5 New York City<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e281c5701b636b7be31c6e666b5a20f2.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"4 dead, including child, after building fire in Queens\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEOS: Four people were killed in a four-alarm fire in Queens on Monday, according to fire officials. FDNY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5855,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-166556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-mid-atlantic-region","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166556","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=166556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}