SHERBURNE – Fire officials said police are investigating a fire that claimed both a 70-year-old woman's life and home on Wednesday morning.

According to officials, the Sherburne Fire Department was dispatched to a structure fire at 6:29 a.m. Wednesday on Granville Hill-Hardscrabble Road in the Town of Sherburne.

"Our initial dispatch included that there was potentially someone inside," said Sherburne Fire Department Chief Jansen Casscles.

Casscles said a 911 caller reported a woman might be inside the building before they arrived at the fire.

"The discovery of the fire was delayed, and some of the initial 911 callers described the fire as having already consumed three-quarters of the home," said Casscles. "The description we received around the time of the first 911 call certainly matched what we found when we arrived."