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BOWIE, MD – Fire crews say one person was found dead after an early-morning house fire in Prince George’s County on Tuesday, but they’re still trying to determine what started it.

Firefighters say the blaze sparked at a home on Jenkins Ridge Road in Bowie just before 5 a.m. Neighbors reported hearing loud popping sounds, and they say they ran outside to find the house consumed by fire.

“I was out taking my morning walk and I heard these sounds,” said Sheila Griffiths, who lives nearby.

Firefighters ran into the home to search for victims, but they were beaten back by flames and a collapsing structure. When they got another chance to go inside, they found a body in a bedroom over the garage.

The victim’s identity has not been confirmed because officials say the body was burned too badly to be identified, but friends and family at the scene told FOX 5 that the woman who owned the home was killed.

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