“I was kind of afraid to jump but I’m glad there was snow,” the woman said
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- A grandmother leaped from a second-story window after learning of a fire at her apartment complex
- The woman had told her daughter that she was going to take a nap before the fire broke out
- She said there was “a lot of snow” on the ground to land on
A fire at an apartment complex in Alaska last week resulted in a grandmother jumping out of a second-story window.
Excelia Hendrickson, her 6-year-old son and her mom, Christina Sallison, lived at the complex in Mountain View, an Anchorage neighborhood, according to KTUU.
Hendrickson told the outlet she had picked her son up from school and was a few blocks away from home when she saw the smoke…