VANCOUVER, Wash. – Residents rescued a 64-year-old woman from a burning apartment in Vancouver early Friday morning.
Faith Hobbs said she was asleep when she heard her neighbor’s smoke alarm go off and soon after that, her alarm started sounding.
Hobbs lives in the Autumn Chase Apartments on NE 7th Street. She said she quickly realized that flames had trapped her inside her apartment.
Then, three neighbors came to her and helped her escape from the balcony around 1 a.m. Miraculously, no one was injured.
“I thought I was going to get burned. I'm a very calm person, but I was yelling, ‘help, help, help!’” Hobbs recalled.
Hobbs and five other people were displaced by the fire. Three other apartments sustained less serious damage.
Investigators said the fire caused about $500,000 in damage.
