More than 230 FDNY firefighters and EMS personnel responded as flames tore through a subdivided Elmhurst home and an exposure

By Kerry Burke, Colin Mixson, Thomas Tracy
New York Daily News

NEW YORK — A house fire that ripped through a Queens home and spread to a neighboring property Monday night killed one woman and injured 10 others, including a child, according to the FDNY.

The blaze erupted inside a home on Dongan Ave. near Broadway in Elmhurst around 6:44 p.m., firefighters said.

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That building collapsed, but not before the flames spread to a neighboring home, which was also gutted in the blaze.

More than 230 firefighters and paramedics were dispatched as the inferno grew into a four-alarm fire.

An FDNY source told the Daily News a 34-year-old female died at the scene of the blaze, while a 22-year-old male was in critical condition, one child was in serious condition, and five victims suffered minor injuries. Three firefighters also suffered minor injuries, the source said.

“It was all smoke and flame,” said Subash Gurung, 45, who lives next door to the building that caught fire. “I couldn’t get any closer. It was too much.”

Multiple neighbors said the home where the fire ignited was subdivided. Olga Jimenez, whose parents live inside the property, said there were “many” families living there.

“I saw one lady with a newborn girl, a baby, they live on the left side in the last room in the basement,” said Jimenez, 60, who was inside the building when the fire spread. “We called to her, ‘Fire, fire, time to get out.’ She said, ‘Ok, ok,’ but that’s the last we heard. We’re still trying to find her and her baby girl.

“Thank god my parents and I are ok.”

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