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Excelsior Springs woman dead after mobile home fire early Friday morning

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An Excelsior Springs woman was found dead in the bedroom of a mobile home after a porch fire early Friday morning.

Just before 5 a.m. Friday, neighbors called police and fire crews to a mobile home park near Stratton Street and Lake Maurer Road after seeing flames on a porch.

Emergency crews arrived and fought the fire that had spread into the structure, where they found an adult woman dead in a bedroom.

In an update Friday afternoon, the Excelsior Springs Fire Department said the cause of the fire remains under investigation, but that the blaze appears to be accidental.