{"id":45219,"date":"2025-11-19T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45219\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:25:08","slug":"nypd-identifies-god-fearing-beloved-90-year-old-woman-killed-in-bronx-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45219\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD identifies &#8216;God-fearing,&#8217; beloved 90-year-old woman killed in Bronx blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cGod-fearing\u201d 90-year-old woman<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/19\/us-news\/beloved-90-year-old-woman-killed-in-bronx-apartment-building-fire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> killed when a blaze tore through her Bronx home <\/a>Tuesday night has been officially identified by authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Allison Johnson, 90, was found lifeless inside the two-story apartment building on East 168th Street near Boston Road in Morrisania, where the fire erupted minutes before 9 p.m., police said Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Johnson \u2013 a resident of the building who a neighbor said used a wheelchair and likely couldn\u2019t escape \u2013 was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Johnson, 90, was killed when a blaze ravaged the two-story apartment building where she lived on East 168th Street near Boston Road, cops said.  Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor said Johnson used a wheelchair and likely couldn\u2019t escape from the burning building. 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 nearby resident Stacey said in the aftermath of the blaze.\u00a0<\/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>Dorita Joseph, one of Johnson\u2019s neighbors for 25 years, said the nonagenarian was well-loved in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the deadly fire remained under investigation Wednesday. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is a godly woman, God-fearing, she is very friendly, she is very well known in the community,\u201d Joseph recalled. \u201cWe love gardening, so we both exchange flowers. She taught me a bit about gardening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 60 firefighters and EMS workers rushed to the scene and extinguished the flames by 9:36 p.m., officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the blaze remained under investigation Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201cGod-fearing\u201d 90-year-old woman killed when a blaze tore through her Bronx home Tuesday night has been officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1015,544,57,9,56,63,65,64,2956,129,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-45219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-deaths","9":"tag-fires","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-senior-citizens","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45219","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=45219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}