ST. LOUIS — A woman died after a fire in her senior living apartment in St. Louis Monday afternoon.
St. Louis Fire Department Capt. Leon Whitener said the fire started at around 4 p.m. at the Park Place Apartments on Forest Park Avenue. Whitener said the fire was contained to her apartment.
Preliminarily, Whitener said she appeared to die from a combination of a cardiac event and smoke inhalation.
No one else was injured in the fire.