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Child injured in downtown Mason City apartment fire

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April 11th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a child was injured in a fire that broke out in a downtown Mason City apartment. Firetrucks were dispatched around 7 p.m. Tuesday to the apartment, which is situated above a commercial building. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that a police officer was seen taking a child to an ambulance and comforting a woman who’d left the apartment with the child. Firefighters soon had the flames under control.