Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were called to a fire at a block of flats in Saint Johns Road, South Tottenham, N15, Friday afternoon.
The fire was in a ground floor flat, half of which was destroyed. An elderly woman was rescued and treated at the scene by firefighters and the London Ambulance Service who then took her to hospital. Sadly she died in the early hours of this morning.
Firefighters and officers from Tottenham fire station attended. They were called at 1711 on Friday and the fire was under control by 1758.
The cause of the fire is being investigated.
