WINONA, Minn. – Fire fighters hoisted a ladder to rescue a woman shouting for help from a second-floor window of an apartment building, but she was gone when they got up the ladder. Meanwhile, the building, on Huff Street, kept filling with smoke. Firefighters scoured the house for the woman and found her locked in a room inside Apartment 108. They forced the door using a set of irons. They wrapped the woman in a blanket and escorted her out of the building. This was about 2:30 a.m. in the 200 block of Huff Street. The fire was traced to a chair just inside the building’s front entryway. The flames were extinguished by a sprinkler system but still emitted lots of smoke.
