Overview
- Fire and police crews found an elderly woman inside a burning home near 63rd Avenue and Peoria Avenue and took her to a hospital where she later died.
- Neighbors and reporters said firefighters battled the blaze for hours and left the house heavily damaged with plywood covering openings and a lingering smell of burned wood.
- Glendale Fire and Police are conducting an active origin investigation and have not released a confirmed cause for the blaze.
- A neighbor relayed that investigators suggested an electrical problem as a possible origin and pointed to visible wiring and do-it-yourself solar panels in the backyard, but that account is secondhand and unverified.
- Neighbors said the couple were in their late 70s and that the husband tried to pull his wife from the home; officials have not released the victim’s name and said more details will follow as the inquiry continues.