WHITE PLAINS - A woman was found dead as a fire tore through her White Plains apartment this morning.

Firefighters responded to a call about smoke in a second-floor apartment at 170 Grand St. shortly before 7 a.m., White Plains Public Safety Commissioner David Chong said.

The fire was contained to that one apartment in the six-story building, but in the apartment firefighters found a woman near the stove in her kitchen, Chong said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The woman had been badly burnt, Chong said, and it is not yet clear whether she died before the fire or as a result of it.

The apartment was extremely cluttered, Chong said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Chong said police are withholding the woman's name until her family is notified.

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