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Firefighters save Saranac Lake apartment house

The Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department shoots down flames coming from an apartment window at 4 Baker St., Saranac Lake, Monday evening. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)
While onlookers congregate outside, members of the Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department use their aerial ladder truck to inspect an apartment building at 4 Baker St., Saranac Lake, while putting out a fire that started just after dark Monday evening. (Enterprise photo — Lou Reuter)

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department quickly extinguished flames spouting from the window of an apartment house at the corner of Park Avenue and Baker Street around dusk Monday.

The blaze threatened the neighboring house a few yards away, but firefighters prevented it from spreading.

Occupants of the multi-apartment building at 4 Baker St. and neighbors evacuated their homes and were outside when the emergency died down around 5 p.m.

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