BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Officials are investigating a southwest Florida house fire that claimed the life of a woman and a dog.
The News-Press reports that 75-year-old Shirley Corriga died in a fire at that destroyed her home Tuesday morning.
She lived with her daughter and her grandchildren, who escaped the burning home.
When Bonita Springs firefighters arrived, the house was totally engulfed. A landscaping crew and a Lee County sheriff's deputy were on the scene when firefighters arrived and had tried to rescue a person they were told was inside. Fire and smoke thwarted that effort.
