{"id":44516,"date":"2025-11-19T06:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44516\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:18:17","slug":"beloved-90-year-old-woman-killed-in-bronx-apartment-building-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44516\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved 90-year-old woman killed in Bronx apartment building fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 90-year-old woman known as a fixture in her community was killed in a fire that tore through a residential Bronx building Tuesday night, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to the blaze on the second floor of a two-story apartment building on Boston Road and Forest Avenue around 8:53 p.m., according to the FDNY. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37705397\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/one-person-died-fire-bronx-115705187.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters and police responding to a fire in the Bronx.\" class=\"wp-image-37705397\"  \/>Firefighters responded to the blaze on the second floor of a two-story apartment building on Boston Road and Forest Avenue around 8:53 p.m. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 60 smoke eaters and EMS personnel rushed to the scene and extinguished the flames by 9:36 p.m., officials said.<\/p>\n<p>One person, the 90-year-old woman, was found inside the building and pronounced dead on the scene by EMS, according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n<p>Her identity was withheld pending family notification. <\/p>\n<p>Neighbors described the elderly victim as a beloved member of the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is a godly woman, god-fearing, she is very friendly, she is very well known in the community,\u201d Dorita Joseph, a neighbor of the nonagenarian for over 25 years, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love gardening, so we both exchange flowers. She taught me a bit about gardening,\u201d Joseph recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very sad night. Not only for us as her neighbors, but for the community,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Another resident said the victim was confined to a wheelchair, so she was likely unable to escape the flames.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37705398\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/one-person-died-fire-bronx-115705168.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters at a residential building fire in the Bronx with an extension ladder to a second-story window.\" class=\"wp-image-37705398\"  \/>An unidentified 90-year-old woman was found inside the building and pronounced dead on the scene by EMS. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lady that lives there, who is wheelchair-bound, that\u2019s in that apartment. We haven\u2019t seen nobody come out,\u201d a nearby resident, Stacey, said of the woman who died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNice lady too \u2026 just being neighbors on the block, you see her coming and going, we all say hi, everybody says hi to each other around here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the building were unsure if they\u2019d be able to sleep in their own beds Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph said her apartment was very smoky hours later and still has a \u201chorrible smell\u201d from the aftermath of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Marshall\u2019s office will investigate the cause of the blaze, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 90-year-old woman known as a fixture in her community was killed in a fire that tore through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,1015,194,544,57,9,24,63,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-44516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-deaths","10":"tag-fdny","11":"tag-fires","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","18":"tag-the-bronx-news","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}