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QUEENS<\/strong> – The NYPD<\/a> is now investigating an apartment fire that killed four in Queens<\/a> earlier this month as a homicide<\/a>, officials announced on Friday.<\/p>\n Queens fire ruled a homicide <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n The fire happened<\/a> on March 16, at a home on Avery Avenue in Flushing. Firefighters responded to the multi-story building shortly after noon that day and found heavy fire when they arrived.<\/p>\n Crews reported seeing three people jump from an upper floor as the flames spread through the building.<\/p>\n PREVIOUS COVERAGE: <\/strong>4 dead in Queens fire as building collapse traps firefighters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n During the firefight, several firefighters were trapped after a staircase collapsed, but they were later extricated.<\/p>\n Firefighters were eventually able to put out the fire, but found three people, a 3-year-old girl, a 50-year-old man and a 61-year-old woman, dead inside the building. Paramedics brought a fourth person, a 63-year-old man, to the hospital, where he was also pronounced dead.<\/p>\n Victims identified <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n On Friday, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the incident a homicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n Two of the victims have also been identified. Three-year-old Sihan Yang and 50-year-old Chengri Cui were among the four killed in the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The two others have yet to be identified.<\/p>\n Officials have not yet determined what caused the fire. As of Saturday night, no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this story is from the NYPD and previous FOX 5 NY reports.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Queens<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS – The NYPD is now investigating an apartment fire that killed four in Queens earlier this month…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":686870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6082,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-686869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-queens","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116304402667579160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}