Windsor, Maine Woman Dies of Smoke Inhalation in Home Fire

WINDSOR, Maine (AP) -- A Windsor woman died of smoke inhalation and her husband suffered burns following a fire at their farm house Sunday night.

Elyse Laplante-Ellis, 44, died while being transported to an Augusta hospital following the 11 p.m. fire at the home on Beehive Road where she lived with her husband, Cameron, officials said.

The house was filled with smoke when Laplante-Ellis and her husband were awakened, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Public Safety Department. Her husband made it out, but she had to be rescued from a second-floor window, McCausland said.

Laplante-Ellis's husband suffered burns to his hands and smoke inhalation, McCausland said.

Fire investigators have determined the blaze started in an attached barn, he said.