Associated Press

JENNINGS, Mo.--A house fire in Jennings has killed a 19-year-old woman and injured four other people.

Fire Chief Joseph Zlotopolski told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch that a 6-year-old boy is among the injured. He said when firefighters arrived at the scene early Sunday, three of the home's five residents had jumped out a second-story window.


Firefighters rescued 6-year-old Deven Williams from a second-story bedroom. The 19-year-old woman was found unresponsive in another bedroom and was pronounced dead at a hospital. The boy is in critical condition.

The three people who jumped from the house were taken to a St. Louis hospital, but their conditions were not immediately known.

Fire officials said the fire started in a first-floor bedroom. Zlotopolski said he was told the family had been using a space heater because the gas had recently been shut off.

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