Wednesday, May 23, 2012
NORTH COLLEGE HILL, Ohio (AP) — Firefighters say a woman has died and four others were injured in an early morning apartment fire north of Cincinnati.
North College Hill firefighters say a woman and child jumped to safety from the second-floor window of the town home apartment after the fire began early today. Another child escaped out the apartment’s back door. All three were taken to a hospital for minor injuries.
A fire official says firefighters tried to reach the trapped 29-year-old woman with a ladder, but fire flashed up from the first floor before she could be reached. A firefighter was treated for burned hands.
Investigators were at the scene trying to determine the cause of the fire. No other information was immediately available.