CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland firefighters on Thursday rescued a woman and her two children, including an infant, from a house fire in the city’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood.
Crews responded at 8 p.m. to a two-story home in the 1700 block of Spring Road, just west of Broadale Road. The blaze started in the second-floor kitchen, and it was determined to be accidental, according to Lt. Michael Norman, a spokesman for the Cleveland Division of Fire.
The fire prevented the mother and her two children from getting downstairs, Norman said. Dispatchers instructed the woman to go out on the porch with her children and close the door behind them.
Firefighters used a ground ladder to rescue the family from the second-floor porch. One child was 6 months old, while the other was 3 years old, Norman said.
The fire caused about $25,000 in damages, Norman added.
A man who lived in the downstairs portion of the home was able to escape on his own.
No injuries were reported, fire officials said.
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