'Trapped' Woman Perishes Inside Of 'Fully Engulfed' Plainview Home: Fire Marshal

PLAINVIEW, NY — A woman became trapped inside of a home blaze in Plainview early Saturday morning and perished, Nassau County Fire Marshal Michael Uttaro said in a news release.

Officers were dispatched to the fire at the Sutton Drive home just before 2:30 a.m., and when they got there, it was "fully engulfed in flames," Nassau police said.

Uttaro said it took about 75 firefighters from nine different departments to extinguish the flames at the "ranch style" home.

The Plainview Fire Department was provided with mutual aid from Hicksville, Jericho, Bethpage, Syosset, Levittown, Melville, Westbury, and the Farmingdale fire departments.

The woman, 67, was discovered inside the home and pronounced dead, police said.

Uttaro described the fire as "difficult" due to "subfreezing weather conditions and wind-blown snow."

Nassau police's Arson/Bomb Squad was also called to the scene.

The homicide squad, which probes all unattended deaths, is conducting an ongoing investigation.

Further details were not immediately available.