Scott Byhoff
A fire ripped through a Queens home, killing 92-year-old Maria Tchinkel on Monday.
A raging inferno ripped through a Queens home Monday morning, filling the structure with smoke and killing a 92-year-old woman inside, officials said.
Maria Tchinkel was found unconscious inside her Ridgewood home by firefighters who fought the 10:30 a.m. blaze, cops said.
Video recorded by a neighbor shows fire shooting from a side window at 1868 Himrod St., with firefighters climbing fences to get into an alley. It took about a half-hour to put out the fire, an FDNY spokesman said.
“Pictures don’t do it justice,” said Scott Byhoff, 32, who lives across the street. “There was smoke up and down the block and there were five or six fire trucks.”
Byhoff said the woman’s two adult sons lived with her and that he rarely saw her outside.
Tchinkel was taken to Wyckoff Hospital, where doctors were unable to save her, cops said.
Her sons were at the home after the fire, but they declined to comment.
Neighbor Vincent Scuderi, 35, said Tchinkel would wave when he would see her on the stoop.
“She was a wonderful lady,” Scuderi said. “It’s just disppointing.”
Two other victims were taken to the hospital — one with minor injuries and another with serious injuries. Both were expected to survive.
The medical examiner will determine cause of Tchinkel’s death, and the cause of the fire is to be determined by the city fire marshal.
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