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Northeast Portland Early Morning Apartment Fire Kills Grandmother

A 79-year-old grandmother is dead and three family members injured after a fire early Wednesday tore through their apartment in NE Portland.

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PORTLAND, OR – A fire early Wednesday morning in an apartment in Northeast Portland killed a 79-year-old grandmother and sent three members of her family to the hospital with smoke inhalation It happened around 3:30 a.m. at an apartment in the Stark Firs Apartments at 160th and Everett.

Residents of nearby apartments tried to help.

A father and mother and their 8-year-old daughter were able to get out and rushed to the hospital. All are expected to be physically okay.

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People who were helping, though, could not get to the grandmother who was trapped inside.

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Officials say that they are still working to determine a cause of the fire.

Photos via Portland Fire & Rescue.

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