Woman dies from fire injuries

2/14/2012

By David Avitabile

The 46-year-old woman injured in a fire died Thursday at a Syracuse hospital.
Kelly Finn was taken by ambulance from the Route 7 home she was renting last Tuesday morning to Cobleskill Regional Hospital, said Schoharie County Sheriff Tony Desmond.
After being stabilized, the mother of two was flown by helicopter to Syracuse where she died Thursday.
Many questions remain about the fire and the death.
Sheriff Desmond said evidence from the fire has been sent to a lab for analysis but no results have come back.
There has also been no information back on the autopsy performed on Ms. Finn, the Sheriff said.
The cause of the fire still has not been determined, he said.
Fire and police officials have interviews members of Ms. Finn's family, including her son and daughter, the Sheriff said.
The call for the fire at the Central Bridge home came in at 8:43am last Tuesday.
When fire personnel arrived at 3240 Route 7, one half mile east of Wetsel Hollow Road, they found a working structure fire with a heavy smoke condition.
Emergency personnel removed Ms. Finn, who was unresponsive, and she was being transported by ambulance to Cobleskill Regional Hospital.
Ms. Finn was the only one at home in the white, two-story wooden home at the time of the fire.
Most of the fire was contained to the rear of the building. It also spread to the attic.
Firefighters from Central Bridge, Cobleskill, Schoharie, Esperance, and Middleburgh responded to the scene along with a fire assist and search team from Worcester.
Emergency personnel from the Scho-Wright, Cobleskill and Central Bridge ambulance squads also responded.