A woman rescued by firefighters from a burning duplex is medically dead at an area trauma center this Easter morning.
The fire- dispatched at 4:18am Sunday morning- was in the 9000 block of West 78th Circle in Overland Park.
It was reported that a woman with disabilities lived there and she wasn't seen outside when police and fire crews arrived at 4:23am..
She was rescued from the structure about 12 minutes later- non-breathing and heart stopped and with "2nd-degree burns over the top half of her body" according to a MEDACT-EMS paramedic. She was taken to a Kansas-side trauma center around 5am.
Fire companies from Lenexa and Merriam assisted OPFD as the response grew to s 2nd-alarm. No other injuries have been reported and the cause is currently under investigation.
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