{"id":208300,"date":"2026-04-24T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:00:34","slug":"fire-rips-through-historic-queens-church-fdny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208300\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Rips Through Historic Queens Church: FDNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Mixson, Kerry Burke<\/p>\n<p>New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>(TNS)<\/p>\n<p>A historic\u00a0Queens\u00a0church erupted into a fifth-alarm blaze Thursday, cops and firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire swept through the\u00a0<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>\u00a0located on\u00a012th St.\u00a0near\u00a0Astoria Blvd.\u00a0in\u00a0Astoria\u00a0around\u00a06:47 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\u00a0Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 270 firefighters and medics were dispatched to battle the fifth-alarm blaze, according to\u00a0FDNY\u00a0officials.<\/p>\n<p>Five firefighters were taken to a local hospital for treatment, but an\u00a0FDNY\u00a0spokesperson could not provide their conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92026 New York Daily News. Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nydailynews.com<\/a>. Distributed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribunecontentagency.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tribune Content Agency, LLC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colin Mixson, Kerry Burke New York Daily News (TNS) A historic\u00a0Queens\u00a0church erupted into a fifth-alarm blaze Thursday, cops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-208300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","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\/208300","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=208300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}