PITTSBURGH — A woman died Friday morning in a fire at a duplex in Pittsburgh’s Greenfield neighborhood.
Three people were in the duplex when the fire started shortly before 3:30 a.m. on Bigelow Street.
Helen Cassidy, 88, was on the second floor of the unit where the fire started, authorities said. She died at the scene. A man in the same unit made it out and was taken to a hospital in serious conditions.
A woman was in the adjacent unit of the duplex. She got out on her own and was taken to a hospital for smoke inhalation, officials said.
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Two firefighters who became dizzy were checked out by paramedics.
It took an hour and a half to get the fire out, officials said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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