The two-alarm blaze started sometime before 5 a.m. on Nelson Circle in East Brunswick.
UPDATE: Police ID woman killed in early morning fire in East Brunswick
EAST BRUNSWICK -- One person was killed in a fire early Friday that ripped through a township house, authorities said.
The scene of a fatal fire in East Brunswick Friday morning. The two-alarm blaze started before 5 a.m. on Nelson Circle in East Brunswick.
A neighbor, Peter Dormi, said a woman in her 60s lived in the single-story house with her son. The son wasn't home when the fire started, Dormi said.
"It's sad," he said. "She just started to get over her husband passing."
The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office is handling the investigation. The Middlesex County Fire Marshall and Arson Investigation Unit were still at the house hours later.
Dormi said his daughter woke him and his family up, yelling about the flames shooting out of the side of their neighbor's house, just feet from their home.
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