News 12 Long Island has learned a woman has been
killed in a Roosevelt house fire
According to
police, the flames broke out around 5 p.m. Wednesday at a home on West Fulton
Avenue.
Officers tell News 12 when they arrived, they could see smoke coming from
the second floor of the home.
All the people inside the house were able to get
out, except for a 79-year-old woman.
Police officers
ran into the burning home, and they were
able to find the woman.
The woman, who has not yet been identified, was rushed to the hospital, where she died.
So far,
investigators do not know what caused the fire.
Two Nassau County police officers also suffered smoke inhalation but were treated at the hospital and released.