Woman suffers burns in Howland house fire

HOWLAND

A woman in her 60s was taken to St. Joseph Warren Hospital and then transferred to an Akron hospital in critical but stable condition for burns suffered in an 11:39 p.m. Tuesday house fire at 2878 Orchard Avenue Southeast.

Howland firefighters found the woman and her son out of the house when they arrived. The son climbed onto the porch roof and down a tree to escape injury, said James Sapp, assistant fire chief.

Sapp said several cats died in the fire. There were no working smoke detectors. The cause is under investigation by the Howland fire investigator and the Ohio State Fire Marshal’s office.