They found the woman unconscious in the two-bedroom apartment.
She was badly burned and rushed to the burn unit at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
She is expected to survive.
Authorities say the apartment did not have any working smoke detectors, and the fire appears to have been started by a faulty electrical cord.
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