{"id":207880,"date":"2026-04-24T00:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207880\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:37:07","slug":"fdny-battling-massive-multi-alarm-fire-at-astoria-queens-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207880\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY battling massive multi-alarm fire at Astoria, Queens church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FDNY was taking on an intense, multi-alarm fire at a church in Astoria, Queens, on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 2 was over the blaze at the Reformed Church of Astoria on 12th Street, between Astoria Boulevard and 27th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials say the fire started at a residence attached to the church at around 6:45 p.m. and quickly spread over to the church, itself, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDNY\/status\/2047465416641966556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">later reaching five alarms<\/a>. Intense flames were seen shooting out of the house of worship&#8217;s roof.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 200 firefighters and EMS personnel responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate word on any injuries or the case of the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Please stay with CBS News New York for more on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FDNY was taking on an intense, multi-alarm fire at a church in Astoria, Queens, on Thursday evening.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3814,545,9,11,10,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-207880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-astoria","9":"tag-fire","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-queens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207880","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=207880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}