COPS SEARCHING FOR ALLEGED ARSONIST BELIEVED TO
HAVE CAUSED FIRE IN FLUSHING APARTMENT BUILDING
TIMESLEDGER | QNS.COM | JAN. 21 - JAN. 27, 2022 5
BY BILL PARRY
Detectives from the 109th Precinct in Flushing
are searching for an arsonist who is suspected of
starting a two-alarm blaze at a Parsons Boulevard
apartment building early Wednesday morning,
Jan. 12, which they described as a drug deal gone
bad, according to the NYPD.
Investigators believe the suspect climbed the
fire escape of the residential building at 34-15 Parsons
Blvd. just before 5 a.m. and allegedly threw a
molotov cocktail through the window of a sixthfloor
apartment, igniting the blaze that spread to
a seventh-floor unit, investigators said.
Firefighters arrived on the scene and fire suppression
units encountered heavy fire blowing
out the windows on the sixth and then the seventh
floors while battling temperatures in the low
teens.
The incident went to a second alarm soon afterward,
according to the FDNY.
Fire units used two hose lines to knock down
the main body of fire and brought it under control
at 5:50 a.m. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries
and were transported to an area hospital, officials
said.
The alleged arsonists fled the scene to parts
unknown, police said, and an investigation by the
NYPD and FDNY fire marshals is ongoing.
Reach reporter Bill Parry by e-mail at bparry@
schnepsmedia.com or by phone at (718) 260–4538.
Police are searching for an alleged arsonist who started a two-alarm blaze at a Flushing apartment building on
the early morning of Jan. 12. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
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