{"id":219141,"date":"2026-05-04T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219141\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:23:37","slug":"at-least-12-firefighters-injured-in-queens-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219141\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 12 firefighters injured in Queens fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-03-154731-04yqdO-e1777891579394-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1025390\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: FDNY units battled a multi-alarm fire at 26-26 93rd Street between Astoria Boulevard and 30th Avenue in the East Elmhurst section of Queens on Sunday, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>The call was received at 2:54 p.m. for a fire reported on the top floor of a private dwelling, with flames extending to neighboring exposures, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The incident escalated to a 4th alarm, bringing 74 units and 231 fire and EMS personnel to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>FDNY crews found two homes engulfed upon arrival, and the fire quickly spread due to shifting wind conditions. Officials later confirmed significant damage to two homes and minor damage to a third, and said the fire has since been brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 14 patients were treated at the scene, including 12 FDNY personnel, and at least one firefighter sustained a serious but non-life-threatening injury after becoming briefly trapped due to wind shifts, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>WNYW-TV FOX 5 New York City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: FDNY units battled a multi-alarm fire at 26-26 93rd Street between Astoria Boulevard and 30th Avenue in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5855,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-219141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-mid-atlantic-region","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\/219141","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=219141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}