The FDNY received a phone alarm just before 4:30 a.m. Tuesday for a fire at 160-02 Hillside Avenue in Queens. Units arrived on scene within three minutes and encountered a heavy smoke condition with fire in two commercial units on the first floor of the two-story building.
"The fire extended up to the second floor into some offices and then it extended up into the ceiling of the second floor," Assistant Chief James Canty said. "We opened up the ceiling and quickly put the fire out."
The fire reached a 3rd-alarm assignment and was placed under control at 6:44 a.m. There were no injuries and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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