Woman’s body found after fire in northwest valley

A woman was found dead in the bedroom of a northwest valley house that caught fire Tuesday night.

Las Vegas Fire Department spokesman Tim Szymanski said a neighbor saw smoke and called emergency responders to the house at 7217 Grand Palace Ave., near Ann Road and U.S. Highway 95.

Firefighters arrived at the scene shortly after 7 p.m. and found the front door locked. They forced open the door and saw light smoke on the first floor, Szymanski said.

Heavier smoke was coming from a closed bedroom on the second floor. Firefighters quickly extinguished the flames and found the woman’s badly burned body on the bed.

The woman’s name has not been released. Investigators had not determined the cause of the fire late Tuesday. The fire was contained to the bedroom.

Detectives with the Las Vegas police homicide section were called to the scene, as is routine for fatal fires, Szymanski said.