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A fire last month that resulted in the death of an Aurora woman and injured 15 others, including three Aurora police officers, started as an accidental cooking fire, authorities say.
The resident of the unit where the fire originated discovered the fire and ran out of the apartment, leaving the front door open, according to the Aurora Fire Department.
The fire then spread out of the apartment and into the building’s exterior stairwell.
At 5:49 a.m. March 26, firefighters arrived at the Aspen Wood Apartments at 532 Potomac St. in Aurora and found the stairwell engulfed in flames.
Firefighters used ladders to help 10 residents out of windows, but an elderly woman was killed when she fell from a second-story balcony.
