{"id":207940,"date":"2026-04-24T01:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207940\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:33:07","slug":"historic-queens-church-erupts-in-fifth-alarm-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207940\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Queens church erupts in fifth-alarm fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A historic Queens church erupted into a fifth-alarm blaze Thursday, cops and firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire swept through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@40.7729542,-73.9300193,3a,75y,247.88h,116.17t\/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sFV04UHu-G-bi0NHAABG9QQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-26.167377682739712%26panoid%3DFV04UHu-G-bi0NHAABG9QQ%26yaw%3D247.8812306180931!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQyMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First Reformed Church of Astoria<\/a> located on 12th St. near Astoria Blvd. in Astoria around 6:47 p.m., according to law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze first erupted in a building attached to the house of worship before spreading to the church, a law enforcement source told the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 270 firefighters and medics were dispatched to battle the fifth-alarm blaze, according to FDNY officials.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A historic Queens church erupted into a fifth-alarm blaze Thursday, cops and firefighters said. The fire swept through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196706,"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-207940","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\/207940","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=207940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}