KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A woman was critically injured early Monday morning in a residential fire in Independence.
Firefighters got the call around 12:30 a.m. to respond to a fire on N. Cottage Avenue.
When they arrived on the scene, firefighters set up firefighting operations as crews searched the house for any victims.
Firefighters located a female victim and brought her out of the house. The woman was transported to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The fire was extinguished shortly thereafter.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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