Fourteen people, including a dozen firefighters, were injured when a massive inferno fueled by high winds tore through multiple Queens homes on Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n
Emergency responders rushed to a fire that had spread to two private homes on 93rd Street between Astoria Boulevard and 30th Avenue in East Elmhurst\u00a0just before 3 p.m., FDNY\u00a0Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said at a press conference. <\/p>\n
Fourteen people, including a dozen firefighters, were injured in a fire that spread to multiple homes on 93rd Street between Astoria Boulevard and 30th Avenue in East Elmhurst. ABC 7<\/p>\n
The flames spread \u201cso quickly\u201d that the blaze soon escalated to a four-alarm fire, bringing roughly 230 firefighters and EMS workers to the scene, Bonsignore said.<\/p>\n
The fire, which was in the rear of the building, rapidly extended toward the front of the homes due to significant wind conditions, Chief of Department John Esposito added.<\/p>\n
Soon after firefighters arrived and began to assess the rapidly growing flames, some became trapped \u201cabove the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
In all, 12 firefighters, including three with potentially serious, but non-life-threatening injuries, were taken to the hospital. Nine others suffered minor injuries, the FDNY officials said. <\/p>\n
Soon after firefighters arrived and began to assess the rapidly growing fire, some became trapped \u201cabove the fire.\u201d ABC 7<\/p>\n
Two residents of the homes also suffered injuries in the fire and were transported to the hospital, authorities added.<\/p>\n
One FDNY member was forced to deploy their personal safety system, which contained an emergency escape rope, and was among those who suffered serious, but not life-threatening, injuries, Esposito said. <\/p>\n
Other firefighters quickly evacuated through the second floor by portable ladders to save themselves as the fire rapidly spread. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis fire turned very, very quickly, and it became a very serious situation for us, causing our members to have to escape to save their own lives with very little time to think about it,\u201d Bonsignore told reporters. <\/p>\n
There is \u201csignificant\u201d fire damage to two buildings, and minor damage to a third building. A garage in the rear of the building was also destroyed. David Burns for NY Post<\/p>\n
The large blaze has since been put under control.<\/p>\n
There is \u201csignificant\u201d damage to two buildings, and minor damage to a third building. A garage in the rear of the building was also destroyed, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Fire Marshal\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourteen people, including a dozen firefighters, were injured when a massive inferno fueled by high winds tore through…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":772103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,21606,6525,4216,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-772102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-astoria","tag-fdny","tag-fires","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116515103519399994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772102","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=772102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}