Amy Showler was doing a little spring cleaning in her apartment on Pearl Street this afternoon. She had just returned from taking a few things to storage and was cleaning her kitchen with bleach, so she decided she needed to open a window in her living room.
When she went into the room, she saw flames climbing up a wall.
She tried putting the fire out with water, but that didn't work, so she found her fire extinguisher, she said.
"By then the room was filling up with smoke, but I took my extinguisher and started putting out the fire," Showler said.
About that time, Cory Paris, who has a used car dealership across the street, arrived with his own fire extinguisher and started spraying the flames on the second floor exterior from the ground.
"A young man playing in the park ran over and asked to use the phone," Paris said. "When we looked, we could see the flames coming out, so we grabbed the fire extinguishers and ran over."
"The flames were pretty big," he added.
City Fire Department responded to the call and finished putting out the blaze.
The cause of the fire has not been determined.
Showler said shortly afterward that she didn't know yet how much of her property had been burned or damaged by smoke or water.
