{"id":326369,"date":"2026-08-21T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326369\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:46:09","slug":"skeletal-remains-found-in-destroyed-queens-home-where-fire-killed-woman-78-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326369\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeletal remains found in destroyed Queens home where fire killed woman, 78, last month"},"content":{"rendered":"

A demolition crew discovered human skeletal remains inside the scorched ruins of a Queens home where a massive fire killed a 78-year-old woman<\/a> and injured 22 others last month, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Workers found the \u201cvery decomposed\u201d remains in the wreckage of the 41st Road building near College Point Blvd., more than three weeks after the deadly fire<\/a> tore through the building on July 25, according to FDNY officials.<\/p>\n

The crew immediately contacted authorities, and the city\u2019s Medical Examiner moved swiftly to collect the remains ahead of heavy rains coming Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

An autopsy has been slated to identify the victim and determine how they died.<\/p>\n

An FDNY source said no one had been reported missing following last month\u2019s fire. The source did, however, note that most of the tenants living in the building spoke Mandarin and there was a language barrier.<\/p>\n

The NYPD is checking to see if the remains can be matched to any missing person reports, the source said.<\/p>\n

\"AA massive fire ripped through a Queens home on College Point Blvd. near 41st Rd. in Flushing, Queens on Saturday, July 25, 2026, before spreading to two adjoining buildings. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The fatal blaze erupted at 9:50 a.m. on the first floor of the two-story home before spreading to two adjoining buildings, FDNY Chief of Operations Kevin Woods said at the time.<\/p>\n

The fire raged for most of the morning as firefighters tried their best to fight back the flames. The fire ultimately reached a fifth alarm, which brought roughly 270 first responders to the scene.<\/p>\n

Photos\u00a0posted to social media\u00a0by the FDNY show heavy smoke billowing from the roof<\/a>. Other videos show heavy flames<\/a>\u00a0as firefighters doused the blaze from outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany, many lives were saved over the proper position of those hose lines,\u201d Chief Woods said. \u201cOur members did a great job to prevent (the fire) from extending to additional buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Firefighters receiving a \u201creport of people trapped in this building\u201d managed to get above the fire to the second floor where, \u201cunder high heat and zero visibility,\u201d they managed to find one of the two injured building residents, Woods said.<\/p>\n

A 78-year-old woman who suffered serious injuries was taken to New York-Presbyterian Queens, where she died.<\/p>\n

Another tenant suffered minor injuries, FDNY officials said. In addition, 17 firefighters and three EMS members were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A demolition crew discovered human skeletal remains inside the scorched ruins of a Queens home where a massive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-326369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","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-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326369","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=326369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}