Seven injured in three-alarm
blaze at Elmhurst home: FDNY
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
Fire marshals were still
investigating what caused
a three-alarm fire at an
Elmhurst home on Sunday
morning that left seven
people injured.
The Fire Department
reported that the inferno
ignited Feb. 24 at about 9:20
a.m. at a home on 42nd Avenue
near 94th Street, with the fire
spreading throughout the first
and second floors.
More than 130 firefighters
from 33 units responded
to the blaze along with
paramedics and the 110th
Precinct as the blaze grew to a
three-alarm tempest.
Four firefighters suffered
minor injuries while
battling the flames, Fire
Department sources said.
Three of them were treated
at a local hospital, while the
remaining firefighter refused
medical attention.
Two other civilians were
Heavy smoke pours out of the top of an Elmhurst home during a
three-alarm fire on Feb. 24. Photo via Twitter/@FDNY
also hospitalized with minor
injuries, the FDNY reported.
Another civilian also
refused medical treatment at
the scene.
Firefighters worked for
nearly two hours before
bringing the blaze under
control at about 11:27 a.m.
The cause remains
unknown at this time, and the
investigation continues, Fire
Department sources reported.
Reach reporter Robert
Pozarycki by e-mail at
rpozarycki@qns.com or by
phone at (718) 224-5863 ext. 204.
Homeless man indicted
in Jax Hgts muder: DA
BY BILL PARRY
A grand jury indicted a
homeless man for allegedly
stabbing a 25-year-old
man to death following
a fight that began at a
Jackson Heights food cart
last summer, prosecutors
announced Monday.
John Daves, 33, was
arraigned Feb. 25 before
Queens Supreme Court
Justice Kenneth Holder on
an indictment charging him
with second-degree murder
and fourth-degree criminal
possession of a weapon.
Daves was at the
intersection of Roosevelt
Avenue and 80th Street in
September waiting on an
order at a food truck when
he exchanged words with
Miguel Angel Becerra-Perez,
25, of Long Island.
As the verbal argument
intensified, video
surveillance showed Daves
chase Becerra-Perez down
the street, catch him and
stab him in the right arm and
chest with a knife that Daves
had grabbed at the food cart,
according to the indictment.
Becerra-Perez died as
a result of the injuries,
according to Queens District
Attorney Richard Brown.
“A verbal dispute
turned lethal after two men
encountered one another
at a food truck in Jackson
Heights,” Brown said. “The
defendant grabbed the
knife from the food cart and
literally chased down the
victim and allegedly stabbed
him to death. This was a
senseless act of violence and
the defendant now faces a very
long term of incarceration.”
Justice Holder remanded
Daves and ordered him to
return to court May 21. If
convicted, Daves faces up to
25 years to life in prison.
Reach reporter Bill
Parry by e-mail at bparry@
schnepsmedia.com or by
phone at (718) 260–4538.
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