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# 79-Year Old Woman Killed in Bed-Stuy Fire
- URL: https://bklyner.com/fatal-bed-stuy-fire/
- Published: 2018-08-27T15:54:49.000Z
- Updated: 2018-08-27T15:54:49.000Z
- Author: Paul Stremple
- Tags: Bed Stuy, North Western Brooklyn, Police & Fire, 479 Quincy Street, Elizabeth Mahone, fatal fire, fire, NYPD 79th Precinct, #wp

![fire engine](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/fire-engine.jpg)

Photo by BKLYNER

BED-STUY – A 79-year old woman was killed when a fire broke out in a Bed-Stuy brownstone over the weekend.

Elizabeth Mahone lived in the basement unit at 479 Quincy Street. She was found unconscious and unresponsive in the unit by firefighters and pronounced dead at the scene by EMS, police said.

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Outside the home on Quincy Street where the fatal fire broke out on Saturday (Screenshot via Google Maps)

The fire broke out around 6:45 pm on Saturday, August 25, said police.

An investigation into the cause of the blaze is underway.