Overview

• Aurora firefighters arrived around 2:15 p.m. Monday at a four-story complex on the 900 block of North Avenue where residents were evacuating under light smoke
• Crews located and extinguished a small fire in a second-floor bedroom but found the 39-year-old occupant deceased inside the unit
• No additional injuries were reported and no one else was inside the apartment at the time of the incident
• The Aurora Fire Department and the Illinois State Fire Marshal’s Office have launched a joint investigation and believe the fire was accidental
• The Kane County Coroner’s Office will perform an autopsy Wednesday to determine the exact cause and manner of the woman’s death