Massive fire breaks out at top floor of NYC hospital

A New York City hospital was ablaze for an hour on Friday, with two people reported injured as firefighters battled the rooftop flames and huge black plumes of smoke billowed into the sky.

The two-alarm fire was reported at the 257-bed St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, Queens at 5:15 pm, a New York Fire Department spokesman told DailyMail.com.

Twenty-five units responded, with 106 firefighters and other first responders on the scene.

Two civilians were injured, he said, but the extent of their injuries is unclear. The fire was on the exterior roof, he said, and it was unclear how it began.