INDIANAPOLIS — A woman died after being pulled from a house fire on Indianapolis' east side Tuesday morning.
Fire crews responded to a home in the 1200 block of North Irvington Avenue, just south of Community Hospital East, for the fire shortly after 6 a.m.
A 60-year-old woman was taken in extremely critical condition to Eskenazi Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the Indianapolis Fire Department said.
One dog died in the fire, the cause of which is still under investigation, officials said.
An IFD spokesperson confirmed there were no working smoke alarms at the home. The spokesperson also said firefighters found a working carbon monoxide detector and several smoke alarms that were still in their original packaging.
Investigators determined this was an electrical fire and deemed it accidental.
Six people have died in fires in Indianapolis this month. Five of those victims were in homes without working smoke alarms.
"The IFD believes that one fire fatality in our district is one too many," IFD spokesperson Rita Reith said. "The fact that we have had six fire fatalities in one month, five of those [in homes] with no working smoke alarm, is very concerning to us."
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According to a city ordinance passed in April 2014, each home is required to have one 10-year sealed battery smoke alarm per floor. The National Fire Protection Association recommends having one smoke alarm outside each sleeping room as well.