A woman was found dead on a burning mattress in her East Dallas apartment Sunday evening, prompting an investigation.
Dallas firefighters discovered the body after forcing entry into the first-floor unit.
Fire crews responded to the Highland Road apartment complex around 6:40 p.m. after a fire alarm sounded. When knocking produced no response, firefighters broke down the door.
Inside, they found a woman’s body atop a burning mattress. Crews pulled her from the apartment, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The fire was extinguished by 7:26 p.m. Hot spots on the mattress required additional attention from firefighters.
The woman’s identity remains unknown. The Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office is working to determine her name and cause of death.
Dallas Fire-Rescue investigators are examining the scene to establish how the fire started. The cause of the blaze has not been determined.
The apartment complex sits in the 2300 block of Highland Road in East Dallas. First responders were called to the scene after a fire alarm was heard from outside the first-floor unit.
