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20 injured in 3-alarm fire in Flushing

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More than 20 people were injured when a three-alarm blaze erupted in a Queens building early Monday morning, officials said.

The fire in the three-story building on 45th Avenue in Flushing broke out just before 3 a.m. and quickly escalated, the FDNY said, engulfing a first-floor laundry and sending tenants who lived upstairs onto the street.

Of nearly 140 firefighters called to the scene,...

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