A woman was found dead after a fire broke out in the garage of a DeKalb County home early Wednesday, according to officials.
Around 1 a.m., DeKalb firefighters responded to the home in the Huntington Place neighborhood near Redan and found the garage in flames, department spokesperson Capt. Jaeson Daniels said. A man and three children had already made it out of the house and alerted crews to the woman still inside.
Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze and contain it to the garage, Daniels said. But the woman had already sustained fatal burns. She was not publicly identified.
The rest of the home had smoke and water damage.
Officials did not disclose the nature of the relationship between the children and the victim, but the man was her brother.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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