UPDATE: The Carbon County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Robin Wisocky, 61. She died from carbon monoxide toxicity, the coroner’s office said.
INITIAL REPORTING: A woman was found dead after a house fire early Tuesday in Carbon County, the coroner reports.
An autopsy was planned for 10 a.m. Wednesday, Coroner Robert Miller Jr. told lehighvalleylive.com, as part of an effort to confirm the woman’s identity and the cause and manner of her death.
The woman was found dead on the second floor of a half-double home in the 100 block of Columbia Avenue in Palmerton, Miller said.
The fire was reported at 5:34 a.m., the Palmerton Fire Department said on Facebook. The blaze did heavy damage to the side of the home where the woman’s body was recovered and lesser harm to the connected residence.
It took about two hours to get the fire under control, but department personnel remained on the scene for more than six hours to deal with any hot spots and assist Pennsylvania State Police in their investigation of the fire’s cause, the post says.
The fire department was assisted by borough police and several area fire and EMS companies, the post says.
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