Overview
- Deputies were dispatched at 2:20 a.m. on Jan. 21 to a home in the 4300 block of Yankee Road in St. Clair Township.
- A 73-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl were found on the front porch when deputies arrived, with another woman still inside.
- Deputies attempted to enter the home but were forced back by heavy smoke and flames on the first floor.
- St. Clair Area Fire Authority personnel removed Laura Bramlett from a second-story window and she was transported to a hospital.
- Bramlett later died at the hospital, and officials have not yet identified the fire’s origin or cause.