Smoking was determined to be the cause of an early morning fire in Sugar Hill Thursday, leaving one woman in critical critical condition.
Neighbors called 911 at 4:47 a.m. to report smoke coming from a house on the 5100 block of Stick Court at 4:47 a.m. The Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services responded seven minutes later with multiple trucks and medical units and discovered an unresponsive elderly female on a hospital bed inside the living room.
The unresponsive patient was rapidly removed from the house and transported to Northside Hospital-Forsyth in critical condition.
It took crews just 13 minutes to extinguish the fire. No other victims were found, and no other structures were damaged.
Faulty smoke alarms were detected in the house.
