VIDEO: A man has been arrested in the death of an 85-year-old woman after a house fire that also injured his parents in the San Bernardino area, officials said Sunday.
Firefighters and deputies first responded to an unincorporated area in the 7200 block of Tippecanoe Avenue around 2:15 a.m. Saturday and found the home fully engulfed in flames, San Bernardino County Fire Department officials said.
Two people, Douglas and Linda Guyette, had escaped from the home but they went back inside to try and rescue the elderly woman. The pair suffered burns and weren’t able to get her out, officials said.
When firefighters arrived at the scene, they were able to get inside the home and rescue the woman, later identified as Charolette Knight, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.