The fire broke out Sunday afternoon, on a street full of single-family homes in the middle class neighborhood of Queens Village, a neighborhood near Belmont Park, which hosts the Belmont Stakes, the final leg in horse racing’s Triple Crown. Television news footage showed flames chewing through the roof of the two-story home and roaring in upstairs rooms of the house as smoke poured from it.
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“This is a devastation of a family,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said, speaking at the scene of the four-alarm fire. He said it was “a fire that moved very, very quickly, and the loss was horrendous.”
“There’s a lot we need to know about what happened here,” the Democrat added.
Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said a passing motorist saw someone tumble from a two-story window as smoke billowed, and called the fire department. The victim, a roughly 46-year-old man, fell onto a porch roof and then a lawn and survived, Nigro said.
The wood-frame home burned rapidly and was already engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived. They struggled to reach some of the victims who were as high up as the attic, a “super-human” task for firefighters to reach people in a home engulfed by such a massive fire, Nigro said. They managed to bring a 2-year-old and someone else from the attic where they had been trapped, he said.
Source: 3 children among victims in New York City house fire – SFGate
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