The FDNY received a call about the growing blaze at 9:52 a.m. on 41st Road near College Point Boulevard in Flushing, which quickly escalated to a five-alarm fire by 10:40 a.m., an FDNY spokesman said.

Fire officials say the fire started on the first floor of a two-story, nearly century-old, wood-frame home in a row of five buildings.

Two of the buildings were ablaze when firefighters arrived, and the inferno quickly reached a third building, Chief of Fire Operations Kevin Woods said.

“These buildings in this row of five … they were built in 1930, so they’re all wood. Wood-frame buildings,” Woods said, according to CBS News.

“The walls are wood, the floors are wood, the roof is also made of wood, so fire travels very, very rapidly. Very difficult for us to get ahead of these fires and extinguish.” Over 250 fire and EMS members responded to the scene as the fire spread, according to the spokesman