A family is grieving the loss of a 7-year-old boy and a teen who were killed in a fire at a Queens home that appears to have been sparked by an e-bike’s lithium ion battery, investigators said
A fire sparked in the first-floor vestibule of a Queens home climbed to the residence's second floor where a family lived
Fire officials are blaming the blaze on a bad e-bike battery, the cause now of five deadly fires in the city this year The call about the fire at the home on 46th Street in Astoria, with reports of people trapped, came in shortly after 2 p.m. The flames were under control within about an hour, but devastation had already been wrought.
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