QUEENS, NY \u2014 A woman has been charged after setting three fires in Queens Monday night, including one that destroyed a Chinese restaurant, according to police. <\/p>\n
Shaniqua Fort, 37, who is homeless, is facing attempted manslaughter, arson, assault, Petit larceny and criminal mischief charges in connection with the April 13 incident. <\/p>\n
The fires occurred at a restaurant located at 60-92 Flushing Ave. in Maspeth beginning around 9 p.m. Then at the Maspeth Jewish Center located on Grand Avenue and a nearby funeral home.<\/p>\n
The fire at the restaurant quickly spread to the second floor where a 26-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman suffered injuries trying to escape the blaze. <\/p>\n
One firefighter also suffered injuries and taken to a local hospital. <\/p>\n
The woman was taken into custody shortly after setting the third fire, police said.<\/p>\n
Fort is expected to be arraigned on Thursday. An investigation remains ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 A woman has been charged after setting three fires in Queens Monday night, including one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-198403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198403","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=198403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}