Firefighters Find Heavy Flames Coming Through Roof Of Glendale Building

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Two people were injured in an extra-alarm fire in Glendale, Queens on Thursday night.

The blaze began at 8:30 p.m. on the second floor of a two-story, multi-family building at 69th Street and Myrtle Avenue.

Firefighters arrived to find heavy flames coming through the roof. The fire was contained to the second floor of the building.

A second fire broke out in the basement of a house at 66th Drive and 73rd Place Middle Village, Queens around the same time, making the Glendale blaze that much harder to fight, a deputy fire chief told CBS2's Valerie Castro.

"Particularly difficult because there was another second alarm in the area, so the area was stripped of fire service. Companies were coming from a distance, relocated companies coming in so that made the situation difficult," FDNY Deputy Chief Patrick Clifford said.

In the Glendale fire, the two injuries included a firefighter and a civilian, both were minor and treated at the scene.

The cause of the fire remained unknown late Thursday.