Woman dies after rescuing man from NW Atlanta house fire, officials say

A large house fire left one person dead in northwest Atlanta early Monday morning, according to officials.

Firefighters were called just before 1:30 a.m. to a home on Madrona Street, just a few blocks south of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway in the Grove Park neighborhood, officials confirmed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. When they arrived, they found flames and smoke bursting from the roof and the front of the house, Channel 2 Action News reported.

Authorities said a woman was trapped inside the home after saving a man who had been asleep inside.

“She woke a man to alert him of the fire, but (she) tragically died while trying to escape,” department spokesperson Anare Holmes said.

Crews found the woman in a restroom, Battalion Chief Shawn Manns told reporters at the scene.

The man was rushed to a hospital and was described as alert, Holmes said.