BY IAN CROUCH
A woman has died in a house fire at Lake Munmorah on Friday morning.
Emergency services were called to a single story brick and colorbond roof home just before 10.30am, arriving to find large volumes of smoke coming from the rear of the property.
Firefighters brought the fire under control, with search and rescue crews finding the body of a woman in the rear of the home just before 11 o'clock.
She has not been formally identified but is believed
to be aged in her 80s.
It's not known at this stage what sparked the blaze.