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Update: Elderly Woman Dies in Newport House Fire

Mary Louise Phillips, 90, was killed Wednesday when a fire broke out at her home on Heather Lane in Newport Beach.

The woman killed in a Newport Beach house fire on Wednesday was identified today as 90-year-old Mary Louise Phillips, police said.

The fire broke out at about 10:41 a.m. Wednesday at the Phillips' home in the 200 block Heather Lane, near Irvine Avenue, according to Fire Battalion Chief Chip Duncan. The fire was knocked down at 11:18 a.m.

"In the course of a search of the building we located an adult deceased female," Duncan told Patch.

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Newport Beach police spokeswoman Kathy Lowe said the fire, which was ruled accidental, was most likely electrical in nature.

Duncan said 33 firefighters battled the fatal fire.

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