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VOL. 112, NO. 20 DECEMBER 17-23, 2020
LIJ frontline
workers receive
COVID-19
vaccinations
Page 4
Holden
launches bid
for City Council
re-election
Page 3
Richmond Hill
inferno engulfs
six buildings
Waxing romantic on the Bridges of Newtown Creek: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was — See Pages 46-47
Photo by Gabriele Holtermann
THE GIVING SEASON
Middle Village’s Cross County Savings Bank
partners with Toys for Tots to collect holiday giftft s
See Page 16
SINCE 1908
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@QNS.COM
@ROBBPOZ
Numerous Richmond Hill residents
were displaced and three
fi refi ghters were injured aft er a
six-alarm inferno engulfed six buildings
early Thursday morning, Dec. 10.
The Fire Department reported
that the massive tempest broke out at
around 1 a.m. on Dec. 10 inside 109-25
Jamaica Ave., at 110th Street. The fi rst
units arrived on scene within three
minutes of 911 receiving the emergency
call, sources said.
The “fast-moving fi re,” as Assistant
Chief John Hodgens described it, started
inside the barber shop on the ground
fl oor and quickly spread up to the second
fl oor and the building’s cockloft — a
space between the attic and roof common
in wood-frame structures built in
the last century.
Forty residents inside the buildings,
in apartments located above storefronts,
self-evacuated; fortunately, none of them
were injured.
All of them, however, lost their homes.
Immediately aft er the fi re, Hodgens
said, they were placed in MTA buses
dispatched to the scene just to keep them
warm. The American Red Cross worked
to fi nd them new, temporary shelter.
More than 200 fi refi ghters converged
upon the scene to battle the blaze, which
was fi nally brought under control at
about 3:43 a.m. on Dec. 10. The cause is
not yet known but is under investigation
by the FDNY marshals.
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