By , Abigail Gepner and Natalie Musumeci
Published April 24, 2017
The Queens home where five people died over the weekend did not have any smoke detectors, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said Monday.
“It’s a very sad day in our city when five lives were taken from us — five promising young lives,” Nigro said at a press conference.
The Queens Village house on 208th Street quickly went up in flames Sunday afternoon, killing four children and a 20-year-old woman, officials said.
Responding FDNY crews “made a very daring and valiant push to get into that building. They knew there were people inside,” Nigro said, adding that the home burned fast.
“They’re wood-frame, they will burn rapidly,” Nigro said of the homes in the neighborhood.
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