By Associated Press - Wednesday, April 11, 2018

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) - Authorities say a child was injured in a fire that broke out in a downtown Mason City apartment.

Firetrucks were dispatched around 7 p.m. Tuesday to the apartment, which is situated above a commercial building.

The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that a police officer was seen taking a child to an ambulance and comforting a woman who’d left the apartment with the child.



Firefighters soon had the flames under control.

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