A man and woman found dead after a fire ripped through the cluttered Queens garage where they were living are victims of arson, police said Monday.

No arrests have been made but the deaths have been deemed homicides by cops. Cops are investigating if the fire may have been set by a woman who knows the man who died.

Sixty firefighters responded to the blaze in the two-story garage behind a private home on 91st Ave. near 175th St. in Jamaica after receiving a call about 6:35 a.m. Saturday officials said.

“I was sleeping and suddenly I woke up. I heard someone yelling, ‘Get out! Get out!’” Faim Shorom, 28, a second-floor resident of the home, recalled. “I looked outside. I saw a lot of smoke from the garage.”

An unidentified man and an unidentified woman were pronounced dead on scene after a fire broke out inside a garage, in which they were living, located in the rear of 172-27 91st Avenue in Queens on Saturday Nov. 2, 2024. 0810. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)
Two people were killed in a blaze that ripped through a garage in Queens on Saturday. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

“I was in the house,” said a man who lives on the first floor. “Everybody went to the back [to the garage] to try to get them out and couldn’t. We didn’t have a chance. The fire was too huge to get in. My other friend… he went in, he tried to get him and get him out. He couldn’t.”

Firefighters brought the flames under control by 7:30 a.m., officials said.

(The first deceased person is removed) An unidentified man and an unidentified woman were pronounced dead on scene after a fire broke out inside a garage, in which they were living, located in the rear of 172-27 91st Avenue in Queens on Saturday Nov. 2, 2024. 0810. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)
Two people were killed in a blaze that ripped through a garage in Queens on Saturday. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

The two victims died at the scene. The names of the victims have not yet been released.

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