{"id":32377,"date":"2025-11-12T21:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/32377\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:55:08","slug":"woman-injured-in-erie-house-fire-passes-away-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/32377\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Injured in Erie House Fire Passes Away | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woman Injured in Erie House Fire Passes Away<\/p>\n<p>A woman who sustained severe injuries in a house fire last month has tragically passed away. Chief Fire Marshal Don Sauer confirmed to Erie News Now that 69-year-old Mitzie Weber died on November 5th.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"East 9th Fire.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Weber was initially treated at UPMC Hamot in Erie before being transferred to the burn unit at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, where she succumbed to her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The fire occurred on the morning of October 24 at 916 East 9th Street in Erie. During the incident, Weber\u2019s daughter managed to escape the burning home. She and a passerby attempted to rescue Weber, but the intense smoke and heat made it impossible to reach her.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were eventually able to pull Weber from the home, but despite their efforts and subsequent medical treatment, she did not survive.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire has been classified as undetermined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Woman Injured in Erie House Fire Passes Away A woman who sustained severe injuries in a house fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,20381,137,1018,813,20382,20383],"class_list":{"0":"post-32377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-house-fire","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-fatalities","13":"tag-firefighters","14":"tag-mitzie-weber","15":"tag-upmc-hamot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}