Neighbours in Carrick are still in shock after a 72-year-old woman died from injuries she sustained in a house fire over the weekend.
“I just loved her so much,” Darlene Schubert said.
>> Woman, 72, dies from injuries sustained in house fire in Carrick
Schubert lives directly across from where the fire started.
“She was such a kind person, funny,” Schubert told Channel 11.
Since her death, neighbors have placed balloons and flowers on the steps leading to her porch.
Schubert told Channel 11 that the woman was like a mother to her, visiting her several times a day and making her meals.
“She could barely move. And my heart healed from helping and feeding her,” she added.
Investigators tell Channel 11 that firefighters were called to her home on Minooka Street in Carrick. When they arrived, they found her on the first floor of the home.
They say the fire started in her bed.
She suffered severe burns and smoke inhalation. She died in hospital.
Schubert told Channel 11 that the woman had difficulty moving and was a heavy smoker.
Authorities are convinced the fire was an accident.
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