Response: 5 pieces of heavy fire equipment, 20 firefighters

Times: 1^st alarm – 10:36 p.m., Under control @ 11:15 p.m.

Cause: Under Investigation

Fatalities: One - 66 year-old female

Damage: $50,000

Details: Dallas Fire-Rescue officers arrived to find the den area of this one story brick home fully engulfed in flames. Firefighters were told that a woman was in the burning home and immediately attempted a rescue. They found the 66 year-old female near a back glass door. She and her husband were in the home at the time of the fire. The husband stated that before he went to bed she had told him that she was going to stay up and watch television. Later his wife woke him up to tell him that the house was on fire. He got out of bed and noticed fire at one end of the hallway. He immediately told his wife to follow him out a nearby window. He escaped out of the window, but when he turned to see if his wife was behind him, he could not find her. The husband escaped without injury. Fire investigators have not determined a cause for this fire.

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