A “God-fearing” 90-year-old woman killed when a blaze tore through her Bronx home Tuesday night has been officially identified by authorities.
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.
Johnson – a resident of the building who a neighbor said used a wheelchair and likely couldn’t escape – was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS, cops said.
“The lady that lives there, who is wheelchair-bound, that’s in that apartment. We haven’t seen nobody come out,” nearby resident Stacey said in the aftermath of the blaze.
“Nice lady too … just being neighbors on the block, you see her coming and going, we all say hi, everybody says hi to eac

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