US EditionE-Bike Battery Explosion in Queens Pizzeria Kills 76-Year-Old Customer
FLUSHING, QUEENS, NEW YORK CITY, JUL 4 – Fire marshals identified a lithium-ion e-bike battery as the cause of the Queens pizzeria fire that killed a 76-year-old woman, marking the city's first battery-related fatality this year.
- A fire ignited by a scooter’s lithium-ion battery at Singa’s Pizza in Flushing, Queens, resulted in the death of a 76-year-old woman on July 4.
- The fire started while the victim, Yuet Kiu Cheung, was briefly in the bathroom near the scooter that was charging inside the restaurant.
- FDNY officials said the fire quickly spread like a blowtorch, trapping Cheung behind flames and smoke that overtook her a few steps outside the bathroom.
- FDNY Commissioner Tucker confirmed it is the first death this year linked to a lithium-ion battery fire amid 122 such incidents so far in 2025.
- Officials stressed keeping e-mobility devices outside and using certified batteries to prevent fires, while the victim's family retained a lawyer after the tragedy.
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Grandma, 76, killed when e-bike battery explodes like ‘blowtorch’ inside NYC pizzeria on Fourth of July: FDNY
Yuet Kiu Cheung, 76, was consumed by the flames when the device erupted just outside the bathroom of Singas Famous Pizzeria on Kissena Boulevard near Cherry Avenue in Flushing around 3 p.m. on the holiday – marking the city’s first deadly fire attributed to lithium-ion batteries this year, officials said Tuesday.
Woman killed in pizza shop fire was trapped inside bathroom when e-bike burst into flames
By Lucy Yang Click here for updates on this story FLUSHING, Queens, New York (WABC) — A quick slice at a local pizza parlor proved deadly for a 76-year-old woman in Flushing, Queens. The fire happened on the Fourth of July. Tragedy struck when the victim unsuspectingly used the restroom in the back of Singa’s Pizza on Kissena Boulevard. That’s the exact moment the back of the store burst into flames. “She went to the bathroom for one minute,…
Stopping to eat pizza was fatal for a grandmother in NYC, because using the bathroom exploded the lithium battery of an ebike charging at the restaurant
Woman killed in Queens pizza shop fire was trapped inside bathroom when e-bike burst into flames
A quick slice at a local pizza parlor proved deadly for a 76-year-old woman in Flushing, Queens, who was trapped in a bathroom when an e-bike inside the restaurant burst into flames.
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