Two people suspected of squatting were killed in a raging Queens garage fire Saturday morning, officials said.
The fire erupted around 6:30 a.m. at 172-27th Ave. in Jamaica, an FDNY spokesman said.
Twelve units and 60 firefighters responded to fight the flames.
Responders found a man and woman, who have yet to be identified, dead in the garage, police said.
Investigators are looking into whether the pair had been squatting in the detached structure, an FDNY source told The Post.
Fahim Shawon, a student studying at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, said he’s been living in a room on the home’s second floor and there were always people coming and going from the first floor and the garage out back.
“The people that are in there, they are crackheads,” he said. “I used to not even know that people lived in the garage. One day the cops came and they were searching for people … and they told me.”
There was “heavy clutter” in the garage, an NYPD official said.
There was also no lock on the home’s front door, Shawon said.
“Last night, there were four or five [people] on the stairs,” he added. “I just rushed past them to my door. On the stairs, you see needles, smoking. I have seen those things. It was always bad things.”
The fire marshal was investigating the cause of the blaze which wasn’t immediately known.
