{"id":218441,"date":"2026-05-03T20:13:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/218441\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:13:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:13:37","slug":"fire-crews-respond-to-4-alarm-blaze-in-east-elmhurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/218441\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews respond to 4-alarm blaze in East Elmhurst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-03-154731.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">EAST ELMHURST, QUEENS &#8211; FDNY units are actively battling a multi-alarm fire near 93rd Street and Astoria Boulevard in the East Elmhurst section of Queens, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Thick smoke has been reported in the area, and authorities are advising people in the vicinity to avoid exposure by staying indoors and closing windows as crews continue suppression efforts.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Traffic delays are also expected as emergency vehicles occupy surrounding streets and access points, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">At this time, the cause of the fire and whether there are any injuries remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officials have not yet released further details, but updates are expected as firefighters continue operations at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/queens\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queens<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article EAST ELMHURST, QUEENS &#8211; FDNY units are actively battling a multi-alarm fire near 93rd Street and Astoria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[850,9,24,12,56,63,122,124,123,618],"class_list":["post-218441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218441","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=218441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}