{"id":251368,"date":"2026-06-01T21:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251368\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T21:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:11:22","slug":"one-man-dead-one-critical-in-queens-apartment-building-blaze-firefighter-also-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251368\/","title":{"rendered":"One man dead, one critical in Queens apartment building blaze, firefighter also hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man died and a second man is clinging to life after a fire tore through their Queens apartment building early Monday, FDNY and NYPD officials said.<\/p>\n

A firefighter was also seriously hurt fighting the blaze that broke out on the second floor of the five-story Sunnyside building about 2:35 a.m., FDNY officials said.<\/p>\n

Firefighters found a 61-year-old man dead in the building on 40th St. near Queens Blvd. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed a 60-year-old man to Elmhurst Hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n

\"FDNY<\/p>\n

Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Fire marshals investigate a fatal fire in a Sunnyside apartment building on Monday morning. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

A firefighter was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Cornell Weill with serious but not life-threatening injuries, officials said.<\/p>\n

The fire was brought under control in just over 40 minutes.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

The fire broke out on the second floor of the five-story building on 40th St. near Queens Blvd. about 2:35 a.m., FDNY officials said. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man died and a second man is clinging to life after a fire tore through their Queens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,134,136,135,265],"class_list":["post-251368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","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-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251368","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=251368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}