Residents Displaced After Fire Breaks Out In Queens Home

NY1 News 1/29/09

A two-alarm fire that broke out inside a Queens home Thursday morning remains under investigation.

It happened around 10 a.m. at 129th Street and 103rd Avenue in Richmond Hill. The fire also caused minor damage to a home next door.

Fire officials say the fire most likely started in the basement from work being performed on a boiler. The flames then quickly spread to the other floors in the two-story building.

"It's scary because it happened so quickly, you don't really have a minute, you just have to grab something and go if you even have a second and to stand here and look at that, honestly, it was really bad and the fire department did a really great job of getting it out so quickly," said one resident.

Officials say all four occupants made it out safely by the time firefighters arrived.