Nancy Santos was rescued from the home and transported to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, where she was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Her daughter was in the home at the time of the fire and was able to get out and call 911,

The Oak Ridge Fire Department has identified the woman who died in an early-morning house fire on Thursday 16.

ORPD said at around 8:55 a.m., a vehicle driving northbound on South Rutgers Avenue near Manhattan Avenue left the roadway and hit the nearby Food City.