Overview
- Firefighters in Brockton, called around 12:30 a.m. Saturday to 80 Glendale Ave., found the second floor engulfed in flames.
- Crews searched for a trapped resident and located a woman in her 40s in a room on fire, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Two other family members, a 70-year-old man and a teenager, were taken to a hospital with injuries described as non-life-threatening.
- Officials say the blaze started in a second-floor bedroom, and the cause remains under investigation with no initial sign of an intentional set.
- Authorities from Brockton fire and police units and state fire investigators are leading the inquiry as the Medical Examiner reviews the cause and manner of death, and officials say working smoke alarms woke the family.