A 64-year-old woman is dead after an early morning fire just south of Toronto Road in Springfield.
Springfield Fire Chief Ken Fustin says that the call came in just after 1 in the morning to the 6200 block of Hayley Ct. in the Cotton Hill neighborhood where firefighters found an active fire in the bedroom of a duplex.
Fustin says that crews found the woman unresponsive and tried to resuscitate her but the victim was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
