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One Dead, Two Injured in Early Morning Fire in Williamsport

WILLIAMSPORT — One woman is dead and two are injured after a fire in Williamsport. Officials said the first alarm came in at home in the 1000 block of Hep...

WILLIAMSPORT -- One woman is dead and two are injured after a fire in Williamsport.

Officials said the first alarm came in at home in the 1000 block of Hepburn Street around midnight.

Firefighters said four people were inside at the time and Terra Smith, 37, did not make it out.

A man in the neighborhood helped with the rescue in Lycoming County.

"One lady was hanging out the window so a couple of other guys, we got a ladder. So she jumped out a window and the gentleman, he was coming out the window and we tried helping him with a ladder and dragged him out of the house," said Jameel Mcaffee of Williamsport.

According to authorities, Smith died of smoke inhalation and burns, and said another person inside was badly burned, and flown to a hospital in Allentown.

Investigators are still looking for the cause of Sunday morning's deadly fire in Williamsport.

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