SEATTLE – A woman was critically injured when her clothes caught fire in her apartment in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.
Fire officials say a neighbor saw the woman on fire on a balcony and called 911.
The neighbor tried to run into the apartment to help but it was locked.
Firefighters had to force entry into apartment. The woman was talking when she was brought out but all her clothes had been burned off.
She was taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition with burns over 90 percent of her body.
A dog in the apartment was not hurt.
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