MEC&F Expert Engineers : Gone on the 5th: 81-Year-Old Woman Killed In Deer Park Fire in Long Island, NY

Sunday, July 5, 2015

Gone on the 5th: 81-Year-Old Woman Killed In Deer Park Fire in Long Island, NY



 


DEER PARK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) 

A house fire left a Long Island woman dead Sunday morning, authorities said.

Police on routine patrol noticed smoke coming from a house at 112 Pine St. in Deer Park just before 5 a.m. Sunday. 

Multiple fire departments responded and discovered Eleanor Di Dea, 81, dead on the first floor of the home, authorities said.

A preliminary investigation found the cause of the fire to be electrical in nature.

The cause of Di Dea’s death had not been released as of Sunday morning.