May 6, 2004 -- Flames pour out of the victim's apartment on trendy Sutton Place yesterday. She was a two-pack-a-day smoker.Jordan Lipstadt An East Side woman who chain-smoked two packs a day and still made it to the age of 95 was killed by her vice yesterday when a burning butt sparked a fire in her home, authorities said.
Annette Barlow was found dead on her bedroom floor after the early-morning blaze ripped through her 10th- floor apartment at 25 Sutton Place, where she had lived since the building was built in the 1960s.
Barlow, who was visited each day by a home attendant, lived alone and had no relatives, an NYPD spokesman said.
Neighbors said she had smoked heavily for years.
"She smoked from the moment she woke up to the moment she went to sleep," said a neighbor, Deborah Becker.
When the fire broke out around 7 a.m., neighbors on the posh block smelled smoke and called 911. Two cops arrived on the scene first, and helped building workers evacuate residents. Barlow's neighbors were rushed to safety as smoke began to engulf their hallway - but no one could reach her.
"At around 7 a.m., someone started banging on all the doors," said Abdullah Simon, 81, who has lived in the building for 29 years. "Just as we started to walk out, it started to get bad."
The two police officers, Philip Stephen and Justin Skarpit, were later taken to New York Hospital suffering from smoke inhalation, authorities said.
