Firefighters battled a townhouse fire in Flushing, Queens, complicated by a frozen hydrant and resulting in three injuries.

Multiple lithium-ion batteries and a frozen fire hydrant were among the obstacles confronting firefighters early Friday morning at a residential blaze in Flushing that injured three people.The FDNY, o ...

The freezing temperatures hampered the fight against a fire at a townhouse in Queens on Friday morning that left three people injured.The fire broke out on 60th Avenue near 146th Street just before ...

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Crews responded to a shed fire on North Liberty Street shortly before 6 a.m. Firefighters quickly learned the hydrant in the area was frozen. Because of the ice they couldn’t use the hydrant.