Fire In Fordham Neighborhood Apartment Kills Elderly Woman
A 78-year-old woman died Saturday after her clothing caught fire as she stood over the stove in her Bronx apartment, the authorities said. Her 98-year-old mother was burned while trying to put out the flames.
Neighbors and a relative identified the woman who died as Blondell Alston. Ms. Alston and her mother, Dorothy Brown, shared the second-floor apartment, in a building on Morris Avenue in the Fordham neighborhood, for more than 10 years.
Ms. Alston continued to care for her mother despite her own recent problems with disorientation and memory loss, the neighbors said.
Firefighters were called to the six-story brick apartment building at 8:13 a.m. by someone on the top floor who smelled smoke.
Battalion Chief Thomas Riley said the blaze was under control by 8:43 and was confined to the kitchen of the women’s apartment, at the rear of the second floor.
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