A woman who D.C. firefighters rescued from a burning apartment Wednesday afternoon died shortly after arriving at a hospital, according to police and fire officials.

       Police identified the victim as 58-year-old Cheryl Couch. Authorities said she lived in the basement apartment in the 200 block of T Street NW, where the fire occurred.

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       Vito Maggiolo, a spokesman for the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services department, said the cause of the fire remains under investigation.

       The fire was reported about 2 p.m. and was confined to the victim’s apartment, Maggiolo said. The building is on the border of the LeDroit Park and Bloomingdale neighborhoods.

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       Maggiolo said the fire was extinguished quickly and the victim was the sole occupant. Police said she died about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.

       Another fire on Thursday in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Northwest Washington left 10 people displaced, three of them children, the fire department said.

       That fire was reported on the second-floor of a two-story rowhouse in the 3000 block of 11th Street NW. No injuries were reported.