SAN ANTONIO – UPDATE 2/15/22: The 91-year-old woman killed in an East Side house fire last week has been identified as Jewel Jackson Dotson.
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A house fire overnight on the city’s East Side has left a woman dead and a man suffering from burns.
San Antonio firefighters found both of them after answering a call about the fire after 1 a.m. Thursday.
They say when they arrived in the 200 block of Utah Street, the man, who fire crews described as elderly, already had escaped the burning home.
However, he suffered burns and had to be taken to a hospital.
Firefighters attempted to go into the home to rescue the woman, who was believed to be in her 90s.
Heavy flames and smoke, though, caused them to retreat.
When they did reach the woman, she already was dead.
Fire investigators spent more than three hours at the scene looking for the cause of the fire, but did not immediately release their findings. Later they said the cause was an overturned space heater.
This marked the third fire-related death in Bexar County this week.
A 67-year-old woman was found dead inside her North side home Tuesday morning after it went up in flames.
Wednesday morning, fire crews in West Bexar County put out a fire in a home there, then found someone dead inside the residence.
Yet another fire on the city’s North Side last month killed a woman and left her husband with burns.
The couple’s three dogs also died in the fire.