Woman dies in St. Louis house fire

Friday, August 30, 2002

ST. LOUIS -- A house fire Thursday killed a St. Louis woman after trapping her in an upstairs room unreachable by her mother, who tried scrambling up a ladder to rescue her, witnesses said.

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