FDNY: Overloaded Power Strip Sparked Apartment Building Fire In Queens That Displaced About 90 Families
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- The FDNY says an overloaded power strip sparked a massive apartment fire earlier this month in Queens.
The fire started in a top-floor apartment in a building on 34th Avenue near 89th Street in Jackson Heights on April 6.
It grew to eight alarms and took hundreds of firefighters nearly 12 hours to put out.
Six residents and 19 firefighters suffered minor injuries.
About 90 families living in the building were displaced.
