Early this morning, Bayside, Queens became the site of a tragic fire that claimed three lives. According to ABC7NY, the blaze erupted around 2:40 a.m. at a two-story house on 208th Street near 34th Avenue and quickly escalated, prompting over 100 firefighters and emergency personnel to respond.

Tragically, a 56-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, and two women, aged 54 and 90, succumbed to their injuries in nearby hospitals, neither of them had any time to escape the rapidly spreading inferno which had engulfed the second floor of their longstanding family home.

Neighbors and fire officials shared a poignant detail: the elderly victim, who had been living with Alzheimer's disease, was a longtime member of the community, her life deeply connected to the neighborhood for over 50 years. Her two adult children, one of whom had Down Syndrome, also perished in the fire, as neighbor Desmond Brennan, 81, told The Post, "They’re all dead. It was a mother and her two children."

Desmond Brennan also described the harrowing aftermath of the fire, “It was just black smoke pouring out of the house. I ran out and I saw them bringing one body out and laying it on the ground. They were doing CPR chest compressions but they couldn’t save [them]," the bodies he saw were "covered in black" soot, testifying to the intense ferocity of the flames that claimed their lives, as detailed by The Post.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation by fire marshals.