An 86-year-old woman died as a fire tore through her Queens apartment early Saturday — the fourth fire death to rock the city in a week, officials said.

The fire erupted in the sixth-floor apartment on 12th St. near 41st Ave. at NYCHA’s Queensbridge South Houses just after 2:15 a.m., the FDNY said.

Neighbors woke up to choking smoke and firefighters banging on their doors, shouting at them to evacuate.

“I don’t know how the smoke got in. Maybe the windows,” said Tyrelle Washington, 24, who lived next door to the senior’s apartment. “I couldn’t breathe. I was like, ‘What’s going on?'”

As he exited his apartment, Washington saw the octogenarian, a Dominican woman and longtime tenant who only spoke Spanish, being taken out on a stretcher with extensive burns to her arms and legs.

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