Woman Dead in East Side Indy Fire, One Family Saved
Source: Indianapolis Fire Department / IFD Social Media
INDIANAPOLIS — One woman is dead, and a family displaced after a Sunday morning fire on the east side of Indianapolis.
A man and woman walking past a double home on East 19th Street near Brookside Park noticed the home on fire around 4 o’clock Sunday morning. They called 911 and then ran over to the burning home to find a way in and get the families out. The woman cut her hand while breaking a window, but both she and the man managed to get a family of four and a dog out of the first-half of the home, which was not on fire.
Eleven Indianapolis Fire Department units responded and managed to put the fire out in about 20 minutes.
IFD says a 66-year-old woman was found inside of the second-half of the home. She was already dead by the time IFD put the fire out.
The cause is under investigation, but IFD have confirmed there were no working smoke alarms in the double home.
This is the 4th fire fatality in IFD’s service district this year.
