The woman who died in a Monday morning house fire in Bangor has been identified.
Carla Durgin, 84, lived alone in the Fairways home, according to Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
A neighbor called 911 to report the fire about 5:22 a.m., Moss said. Flames reached high above the roof and could be seen from a distance.
Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze and found the victim, tentatively identified as Durgin, dead inside the home, according to Moss.
The Maine medical examiner’s office will perform an autopsy to determine Durgin’s cause of death and make a positive identification.
Durgin was the wife of Nelson Durgin, who served on the Bangor City Council from 2010 to 2016, including two years as its chair. Gov. Jock McKernan appointed him Maine’s adjutant general in 1991, a position Durgin held until he retired from the military in 1995. Durgin first enlisted in the Maine Air National Guard in December 1960, and asked Carla to marry him before leaving for basic training.
They were married 59 years until his death in September 2020.
The fire remains under investigation.
Fairways is a small road near the Bangor Municipal Golf Course.