CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.—Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say fire has claimed the life of an elderly woman and injured a man.

Emergency crews were dispatched at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday to the Conshohocken section of Whitemarsh Township.

Police Chief Mike Beaty said in a statement that crews found a 70-year-old man in the rear of the home with burn injuries.

He says "extensive fire was engulfing the entire structure" at the time.

Firefighters later found 71-year-old Barbara Conicello dead in a bedroom on the ground floor.

The male victim was taken to Bryn Mawr hospital, where a spokeswoman told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he was in fair condition.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.