MANKATO, Minn. — Two children perished in an early morning upstairs apartment fire in a Mankato house. An adult woman was airlifted 80 miles to a Minneapolis hospital. Authorities deferred releasing the names of the victims until family could be informed. An adult man and a third child escaped unhurt, as did people in a downstairs unit. Fire crews responded about 2 p.m. Not until dawn was the fire fully extinguished. The cause weas not determined immediately.
House converted to rentals. At 233 Bradley Street in the south-central Lincoln Park neighborhood.