What to Know
- A person killed when a fast-moving fire roared through a northern New Jersey home this week was identified Tuesday
- Essex County prosecutors said Geovanna Mora-Gamboa, 47, was the only person in the Irvington home when the fire broke out Sunday night
- Mora-Gamboa lived in a basement apartment at the house where the fire took place; a cause of death has not been disclosed and the fire remains under investigation
A person killed when a fast-moving fire roared through a northern New Jersey home this week was identified Tuesday as a woman who lived there in a basement apartment.
Essex County prosecutors said Geovanna Mora-Gamboa, 47, was the only person in the Irvington home when the fire broke out Sunday night. She was unconscious when emergency crews found her in her apartment. and she was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later.
A cause of death for Mora-Gamboa has not been disclosed.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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