WATERFORD, Mich. (AP) - Authorities in Oakland County say a 50-year-old woman has died in a fire that rushed through her house fire in the northwestern Detroit suburb of Waterford.
Waterford Regional Fire Department Capt. John Lyman says his crews got a call about 11 a.m. Monday. He says the home was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.
Lyman says in a statement that the woman was taken to a hospital, where she was declared dead. He says investigators are trying to determine what caused the fire.
The victim’s name wasn’t immediately released. The Oakland Press of Pontiac says she was 50 and lived in the house.
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