A 54-year-old woman died in a home fire in Brooklyn, about 10 minutes before another deadly fire in the Bronx, officials said Wednesday.
Cops found the woman unconscious at a home on Rochester Avenue, where a fire broke out around 10:09 pm Tuesday that took about an hour to put out.
Emergency medical workers rushed the woman to University Hospital and Brookdale Medical Center in Brownsville, where she was pronounced dead. The police will not release her name until her family has been notified.
Medical examiners have not determined the cause of her death, police said.
The city’s fire department is still investigating the cause of the fire.
The blaze closely mirrors an apartment fire that erupted about 10 minutes later in the Bronx, killing 76-year-old Milton Barnes and injuring two others.
The FDNY said Barnes was found unconscious with “severe exposure to fire” in his second-floor Rochambeau Avenue apartment.
Two other people were hospitalized. Their current status is unclear.
The cause of this fire is also under investigation.
