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A passing
motorist spotted the roaring fire that engulfed the home in the
Queens Village neighborhood and called the fire department
around 2:30 p.m., the New York Fire Department said in a
statement on its Facebook page.
"Our members arrived in just over four minutes and were met by a
house completely consumed with fire," FDNY Commissioner Daniel
Nigro told a news conference. "None of the five people in the
home survived. It’s a terrible, tragic loss."
He said the youngest victim was 2 years old.
Three children were among the dead, de Blasio said at the news
conference. He did not release their names or ages.
"Our job now is to get down to the bottom of what happened and
do everything we can to make sure that no family ever suffers
like this again," de Blasio said on Twitter.
The cause of the fire, which took firefighters more than three
hours to control, was under investigation, he said.
(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, Calif.; Editing by
Peter Cooney)
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