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64-year-old woman dies in Forest Hills, Queens apartment fire
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Louis C. Hochman
Published Nov 25, 2022
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A 64-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene of a Forest Hills, Queens apartment building fire Friday.
The one-alarm fire took place in a six-story residential building on 71st Avenue, according to the New York Police Department. Officers arriving shortly after 8 a.m. found a woman unconscious and unresponsive inside, police said.
The fire has been extinguished. No cause has yet been announced, and the woman's identity had not yet been released as of mid-day Friday.
The deadly fire comes just over a day after another, in the Bronx, that caused two deaths on Thanksgiving morning. A 20-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man died in the Thanksgiving fire.
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Louis C. Hochman
After about two decades in (mostly) New Jersey-focused commercial print, digital and digital-but-radio-adjacent news, Lou stumbled into member-supported news in early 2021, as the editor and CEO of Montclair Local. There, he (hopes he) expanded enterprise, brought more sophistication to digital storytelling and moved the nonprofit newsroom closer to long-term financial sustainability. He helped lead the Local to its fourth consecutive General Excellence award from the New Jersey Press Association — the NJPA's highest honor with judges noting the paper's work to strip away layers of government opacity, to hold power to account, to make news accessible for more members of the community, to share the stories and concerns of more facets of the community and to tell compelling stories across multiple media. He's excited to continue the same ethic — news as a public service — at NYPR as the New Jersey and suburbs editor, drawing on the extraordinary talents of reporters including Karen Yi and Nancy Solomon. Lou lives in Philly (that commute!) with his partner and their two cats, about whom and about which he speaks incessantly.
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