SCHENECTADY, N.Y. - Officials say one woman was burned and another woman and child had to jump from a second-story window during a pre-dawn house fire in Schenectady (skeh-NEHK'-ta-dee).

The unidentified injured woman was flown to the burn unit at Westchester Hospital. The woman and the 4-year-old child who leaped from house were taken to a local hospital.

The victims' conditions were not immediately available.

Officials say the fire struck just before 5:30 a.m. Monday and destroyed the house in the industrial city about 10 miles west of Albany.

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