Elderly woman dies after being pulled from burning Glendale home
Woman dies in Glendale house fire
An elderly woman is dead after a fire erupted inside a home near 63rd Avenue and Peoria. FOX 10's Andrew Christiansen learns more about what may have caused the deadly blaze.
GLENDALE, Ariz. - A woman is dead after a house fire in Glendale early Sunday morning.
What we know:
The smell of burnt wood from the house lingered in the air by the afternoon after the blaze happened at around 1:30 a.m. on June 14, near 63rd and Peoria avenues.
According to police, the victim was found inside the burning house and taken to a nearby hospital where she later died.
What we don't know:
Officials are still looking into what caused the fire.
What they're saying:
A neighbor says investigators told him this fire might have started because of an electrical issue.
"I had a light flashing through the restroom window and my neighbor’s car is parked over here and I thought maybe his alarm is going off, so I come wandering out here in my shorts like holy cow," neighbor Don McDowell said. "I mean there was a firetruck truck parked right here sucking out of that fire hydrant."
Map of the area.
The Source: Information in this report was gathered from the Glendale Fire Department, the Glendale Police Department, and a neighbor.