Investigators want to know what sparked a house fire that killed a teen and left her mother with burns in Cobb County.
Firefighters told Channel 2's Steve Gehlbach that neighbors called 911 after seeing the flames. The 911 calls said that possibly two people were trapped inside the home.
“I saw the flames when I walked to the door and it was already through the roof on the end of the house… and said the lady was laying out in the yard and was trying to get her up and she was bleeding badly, and she was in shock,” said neighbor Harry Jones.
The first crew of firefighters arrived in under five minutes to find the house engulfed in flames. They went around the backyard and found that the mother escaped.
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She said her daughter was still trapped in the burning house. Firefighters found the teen in a bedroom and pulled her out. The victim was rushed to the hospital but she later died from her injuries.
Neighbors said she was around 18-19 years old, had just graduated from South Cobb High School nearby and was going to nursing school.
Cobb fire investigators are still looking into what started the fire. The victim's identity has not been released.
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