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20.07.2023 - 20:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
An east Manchester community has been left 'shocked' and grieving this evening after a 50-year-old woman died in a house fire.
Emergency services were scrambled to Edale Avenue in Moston just after midday on Thursday (July 20) to reports of a house fire in a property. Fire crews rushed to rescue a casualty through the window of an upstairs bedroom, but later confirmed the 50-year-old woman had died.
Friends and neighbours gathered at the cordon on Edale Avenue this afternoon to grieve for the woman at the centre of the tragedy. "It's a real shock," one neighbour said. "I only saw her this morning. We've known her for years. It's tragic."
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A woman working in Mo's Corner Shop on the end of Chinley Avenue said the woman was one of her regulars, and she watched the fire take hold through the CCTV cameras in her shop.
"It was traumatic," she said. "I saw her here often. I could see the fire in the back of the house through the cameras. It is a shock."
Other neighbours gathered to pass a card to her family sending their condolences. "It just isn't nice, is it," one woman told the M.E.N. "When you think about it, the fire could have spread, and even more houses could have been affected. The consequences are terrible."
Others, who did not know the woman, said it was a 'sad day' for the neighbourhood. "I knew something serious had happened as soon as I heard the sirens," one neighbour added.
Police and fire crews remained on the scene into the evening to carry out an investigation into the cause of the fire. A Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: “At 12pm on Thursday the 20 July 2023, firefighters were called
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