Shoreview woman rescued from burning home

A Shoreview woman is safe after she was rescued from a burning home. The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office says a triplex went up in flames in the 3500 block of Chatsworth Circle around 8 p.m. Wednesday. One of the men who helped in the rescue tells 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS he was grateful that everyone is okay.

“Yeah, we were definitely concerned,” said Mariela Martin, who lives nearby. “There were firetrucks just coming out of nowhere from everywhere.” Mariela Martin lives a couple of units away from where the fire started. “We actually just moved in on the 15th of this month,” Martin said. As she returned to see some of the damage on Thursday, Martin admits she was ready to evacuate with her ten-month-old daughter. “A lot of neighbors were really curious about what was going on,” Martin said. The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office says a 23-year-old woman with autism was in an upstairs bedroom inside the burning townhouse. That’s when a deputy, the woman’s grandfather…..

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