{"id":207982,"date":"2026-04-24T02:25:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207982\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:25:40","slug":"5-alarm-blaze-burns-at-queens-church-and-rectory-fdny-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207982\/","title":{"rendered":"5-alarm blaze burns at Queens church and rectory, FDNY says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"v0gsk\">A five-alarm fire overtook a church and rectory in Queens on Thursday evening, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9h10k\">Fire officials said the initial call came in around 6:46 p.m. for a reported fire at 27-21 12th St., near the First Reformed Church of Astoria, between 27th Avenue and Main Avenue. The blaze was later escalated to a fifth alarm at 7:57 p.m., officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5pau6\">In total, 84 units and about 270 fire and EMS personnel had been deployed, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"86j19\">City emergency officials <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NotifyNYC\/status\/2047465298014482543\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a> people nearby to avoid smoke and close their windows, according to Emergency Management.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"54pfc\">The First Reformed Church of Astoria dates back to the 19th century and is one of the neighborhood\u2019s oldest congregations.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4ev25\">It was not immediately known if there were any injuries or the extent of the damage.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7mv0q\">This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A five-alarm fire overtook a church and rectory in Queens on Thursday evening, according to the FDNY. Fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-207982","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\/207982","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=207982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}