Fatal fire on McPherson Street

An elderly woman is dead after a house fire on McPherson Street Thursday morning.  Platoon Chief Val Lafontaine says crews were called to the blaze just before 4 o'clock at 640 McPherson Street.  Lafontaine says firefighters didn't find the body until a secondary search of the house, once the blaze was under control.  A neighbour told our news room, the woman lived alone and kept to herself.  City Police along with Thunder Bay Fire and Rescue and the Ontario Fire Marshall's Office are investigating the cause.