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Elderly Woman Dies In House Fire; Husband Injured

YPSILANTI TWP. (WWJ) An 85-year-old woman has died in an Ypsilanti Township house fire that also injured her 86-year-old husband.

Washtenaw County sheriff's spokesman Derrick Jackson says the woman was trapped Thursday afternoon in the house on Stony Creek Road, and pronounced dead at the scene.

Her husband was being treated at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. His condition wasn't immediately known.

The cause of the blaze is under investigation.

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