SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities say a woman has died and her husband has been injured in a fire at a home in Saratoga Springs.
Police in the upstate city tell the Times Union of Albany (https://bit.ly/2vFBDfr ) that the fire was reported around 10 a.m. Thursday in a two-story home in a housing development on Saratoga’s southwestern outskirts.
Lt. Robert Jillson says a woman was killed, while her husband was being flown to a hospital burn unit. The victims’ names haven’t been released.
Firefighters contained the blaze within a half hour after arriving the scene.
There’s no immediate word about a possible cause of the fire.
Damion Hedington, who was staying with his girlfriend’s grandparents at their nearby home, told the newspaper he helped the man escape from the burning home.
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Information from: Times Union, https://www.timesunion.com
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