Hamilton Apartment Fire Claims Life, Injures Woman

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A deadly fire tore through an apartment building in Hamilton, early Thursday morning, claiming

the lives of a man and a cat.

Crews rushed to the four-story complex at 1266 Finale Avenue East near Mountain Brow

Boulevard, just before 5am, facing heavy.

Smoke and flames pouring from a fourth floor unit.

Firefighters battled intense heat inside, rescuing a woman from the front of the apartment

who arrived at the hospital in critical condition, but is.

Now stable.

The man was found in the bedroom amid the worst of the blaze and did not survive, while

the fire caused major damage from flames and smoke throughout.

The unit?

Other residents evacuated briefly, but most have returned home, though police are still

securing the fourth floor as investigators from Hamilton Fire, and the office of the Fire

Marshall Probe, the undetermined cause.