BURTON TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A 68-year-old woman is dead and a 69-year-old man was injured in an early-morning house fire Sunday in Geauga County.

A news release from the Burton Volunteer Fire Department says the fire at the single-story home on the 14000 block of Erwin Drive was reported just before 4 a.m. The man at the home was able to escape the fire but the woman was trapped inside, officials say.

Light smoke was coming from the back of the home when firefighters arrived. Attempts to rescue the woman were hindered because a door was blocked and by “extreme clutter,” the news release says.

Once firefighters found the woman, they got her out of the home through a bedroom window.

Both the man and woman were taken to a hospital for treatment. The woman died at the hospital of her injuries.

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