An 80-year-old woman died after a fire erupted on her motorized mobility scooter outside a northern Minnesota care facility Monday, authorities said. The Ely Police Department said the victim was “engulfed” before staff members were able to get her off the scooter.

An 80-year-old woman was “fully engulfed” by flames while on a motorized scooter in Ely and died, officials said Tuesday. The incident occurred late Monday afternoon outside the Boundary Waters Care Center,

It happened outside Boundary Waters Care Center in Ely.

An 80-year-old woman in northern Minnesota was “fully engulfed” in flames when the motorized scooter she was riding outside her care facility caught fire, triggering an investigation into her