NEW YORK — A large fire at a restaurant-bar in the New York City borough of Queens on early Tuesday morning injured at least 12 firefighters, emergency officials said.
A spokesman for the New York Fire Department (FDNY) said it received a 911 call about a fire at 37-20 30th Avenue at 7.19 a.m. local time. It involves a 3-story building with on the ground floor the FLO Lounge Restaurant and multiple dwellings on the first and second floors.
The fire was later on Tuesday morning upgraded to a fourth-alarm fire, and a total of 39 units with 168 firefighters were at the scene to get the blaze under control. There were no civilian casualties but 12 firefighters sustained minor injuries, including five whom were transported to an area hospital.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
