By Joe Gorman
The Tribune Chronicle
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Fire Chief John O’Neill said regular training for high-rise fires paid off Wednesday after crews had to battle a blaze and rescue a woman from a downtown office building that caught fire.
Just after 8 p.m. crews were called to a fire at 23 W. Federal St., which houses Huntington Bank. A cleaning woman was on the 11th floor and could not be reached by any of the department’s ladder trucks, so a crew raced up the steps and got her out of the building, reports state.
The blaze broke out in the lobby of the bank and snaked up a large wooden column to the second floor. Reports noted a electric breaker near the source of the fire was tripped. Damage is listed at more than $150,000, and a cause is under investigation.
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