The Red Cross is now assisting seven households, including ten children, after a five-alarm fire in Queens Village severely damaged their homes Saturday night.

“It’s awful,” Crystal Hammond, a neighborhood resident who lives nearby, said. “Such devastation, such loss.”


What You Need To Know

  • The Red Cross is assisting seven impacted households, including 10 children, after a five-alarm fire damaged homes in Queens Village Saturday night

  • No one died in the fire, but the FDNY maintained a presence overnight, and the Department of Buildings is investigating the structural integrity of the homes

  • More than 200 fire and EMS personnel responded to the scene, and it took nearly two hours to get the fire under control

“It breaks my heart to see this happen,” Anthony Gagliardi, who owns a business right next to the affected homes, said.

No one died from the fire, but those displaced are still recovering.

“I was scared, and we didn’t have anything, nothing left in my house,” Mohammed Mamun, one of the impacted residents, said.

On Sunday, Mamun said he is hoping to salvage what little he can. He lived here with his wife and two daughters.

“I did not sleep the whole night. That’s why I come to over here. I look at anything left or not,” he said.

The FDNY maintained a presence overnight, and the Department of Buildings is investigating the structural integrity of the homes.

Hammond said it was her dog that alerted her to the trouble.

“He started barking. We knew something was wrong, all of a sudden, it was so much smoke, it came into my house. My house is filled with smoke, I live two blocks away,” Hammond said.

The FDNY says more than 200 fire and EMS personnel responded to the scene, and it took nearly two hours to get the fire under control. Now those whose lives have been upended, like the Mamun family, will try to focus on rebuilding.

“Right now I’m feeling like I’m homeless,” Mamun said.

The fire left at least one home with burned and charred interiors, broken windows and an open roof, according to a Department of Buildings report.

Officials said all injuries sustained by both civilians and first responders are minor.