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An early-morning house fire in Layton has caused about $90,000 in damage,
According to a release from the Layton Fire Department, at approximately 2:20 a.m., dispatchers received a 911 call from a 46-year-old female homeowner at 1450 N. Church St. The homeowner reported smelling and seeing smoke coming from her heat vents in her bedroom and beneath her bedroom door. When a police officer arrived, he forced the front door open and found the woman coughing and screaming for help at a second-story window. She was eventually assisted out of the window and onto a ladder and treated at the scene, suffering from minor smoke inhalation. Fire crews arrived and quickly put out the fire.
The home apparently had no working smoke alarms, according to Layton Fire Public Information Officer Doug Bitton.
"The occupant thankfully was able to awake and do all the right actions and was instructed excellently by dispatchers," said Bitton. "Nighttime fires with no working smoke alarms could have had a devastating loss of life here."
Investigators are looking at aged chandelier wiring and an extension cord used in the living room as the fire's possible cause.