Overview
- FDNY received calls around 7:50 a.m. for a fire on 202nd Street in St. Albans, where crews found heavy flames in the cellar of a detached home.
- Firefighters rescued three people found unconscious and in cardiac arrest inside the house and brought the blaze under control in roughly 50 minutes.
- A 95-year-old woman was pronounced dead after transport to Long Island Jewish Valley Stream, police said.
- A 6-year-old girl remains in critical condition at Cohen Children's Medical Center and a 68-year-old woman is critical but stable at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream.
- Neighbors said the adult victims are the child's grandmother and great-grandmother, and officials noted this incident adds to at least seven recent fatal fires citywide with varied, non-suspicious causes.