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Nov 6, 2009 4:24 pm US/Central

Fort Worth House Fire Kills Woman, Grandson

FORT WORTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ― A Fort Worth house fire killed a grandmother and her 3-year-old grandson.
 
The fire started just before noon Friday in the 6000 block of Truman Drive in Fort Worth. 

The woman, identified as 45-year-old Lavona Anderson and her grandson were the only people inside the home when the fire broke out.  The fire is believed to have started in a chair in the living room. 

Anderson and her grandson were found lying on the kitchen floor.

Neighbors say if it weren't for a few wisps of smoke, no one would have even known there was a deadly fire raging in the home.

When firefighters arrived they did not see any smoke from inside the home, and when they made entry the fire had burned itself out from using up the oxygen in the room.

Firefighters are still investigating how the fire started.  The house did not have a working smoke detector.

With Friday's fire, seven people have died in house fires in Fort Worth in 2009.

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