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07/10/2012 10:40 PM

Firefighters battle small fire at Midtown Towers

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WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- Some tense moments for emergency crews as they responded to a fire in a high rise apartment building in Watertown.

Firefighters say a tenant in the Midtown Towers complex was smoking around oxygen tubes and caused a small fire in her apartment on the second floor. The apartment and hallway filled with smoke and the building was evacuated.

The woman was treated at a nearby hospital for smoke inhalation.

The call reminded many firefighters and tenants of a tragic fire at the same building back in 1989 that killed four people.