A 63-year-old woman is dead after a three-alarm house fire in Baltimore’s Waverly neighborhood on Friday morning, according to fire officials.

Firefighters responded around 4:15 a.m. to the 500 block of East 38th Street, where they found fire and smoke coming from a two-story home.

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Officials said a person was found dead in the home, with no other injuries. The fire was contained around 5 a.m. and the cause is under investigation.

Lutondar Hicks, who lives two homes from where the fire started, said the air smelled like smoke around 4:30 a.m., according to WBAL. She got up to investigate and saw the fire from her window. She and her son, who had been sleeping, tried to get out through the front door.

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“But then there was so much smoke, we wind up going out the back door,” she said.

The Baltimore City Fire Department announced on Friday evening that, starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday, they will do a safety sweep in the 500 block of East 39th Street to test and install smoke alarms.

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The incident comes days after a 68-year-old man died in a Christmas morning house fire in Harford County.