A 41-year-old woman was killed and a 77-year-old woman left clinging to life when a fire tore through their Upper West Side apartment early Thursday, officials said. The woman who died is believed to have worked as a home health aide for the older woman.

One woman was killed and another critically injured in a fire on the Upper West Side early Thursday morning.The fire broke out around 3:13 a.m. in an apartment on the 14th floor of the high-rise on 73rd Street between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues.

One woman was killed and another critically injured in a high-rise fire on the Upper West Side early Thursday morning, authorities said.Firefighters raced to a 14th floor apartment at the 15-story Verdi co-op building on West 73rd Street shortly after 3 a.