Firefighters seeking cause of fatal South Side fire

YOUNGSTOWN — Investigators are searching for the cause of an early morning fire that killed one elderly woman and sent her son to the hospital.

Fire crews were called out at 3:17 a.m. to a home at 123 E. Chalmers Ave. for a home fully engulfed. Firefighters were informed that the house had two occupants — Hilbert Taylor and his 83-year-old mother Patricia Conway — who had not made it out of the burning building.

When firefighters arrived at the house, Taylor, no age given, was standing outside the house with unspecified burns to his body. Taylor had actually called 911 from a cellphone while standing on the roof of the porch to avoid the flames.

Taylor was treated by paramedics at the scene, then transported to the Akron Burn Center for further treatment. There is no word on his current condition.

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