VIDEO: Five firefighters were injured battling a large blaze that ripped through a building in Queens on Sunday morning. The fire broke out around 6:15 a.m. at a building on Sutphin Boulevard between 114th Road and 115th Avenue in Jamaica.
According to the FDNY, nearly 170 firefighters and EMS personnel responded. Officials say the fire was reported on the first floor of the building. Three firefighters suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries as a result of the fire. Two other firefighters also suffered minor injuries. All were taken to Jamaica Hospital for treatment.
The fire was put under control just after 8 a.m., and video shows firefighters checking for hot spots on top of the building afterwards. Officials say the building has businesses on the bottom floor, and one woman tells Eyewitness News she had just started work when she noticed something was wrong.
“When I came to work and I went in the building, I smelled the fume and the smoke, and we looked around and all of it’s fuming and smoking, and me and another coworker was there,” the woman said. “When I came outside, I see smoke out of the building, and I came out and then I rushed to my building upstairs, wake up my daughter and we headed out and then we called the fire truck.”
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
