An East Providence fire marshal and police officer, survey the damage at a house at 2 Lyon Ave, in East Providence.

The Providence Journal / Steve Szydlowski

EAST PROVIDENCE — A woman leaped from her second-story window as she and a family with young children escaped a fast-moving fire at a two-family house Wednesday afternoon.

Battalion Fire Chief Frank Wyrostek said he called in nearly all of the city’s fire trucks and its ambulances when he arrived and saw the flames coming from the first floor and up through the house at 2 Lyon Ave. The woman who’d jumped was sitting on the curb across the street, he said, with an injured leg.

Three children living in the first-floor apartment had also escaped with their mother, said a neighbor, Maria Garcia, who brought them blankets and sweaters for warmth. “They were so nervous,” Garcia said. “They cry, cry, cry.”

Wyrostek said the three children were taken to Hasbro Children’s Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. The woman was also taken to a hospital, he said. One firefighter was checked at the scene for a neck injury suffered while battling the fire, the battalion chief said.

The fire investigators were determining where the fire started and its cause, Wyrostek said.

The house is owned by a 98-year-old woman, whose father built the house during the early 1900s, said Michelle Botelho, whose mother-in-law manages the house. The two-and-a-half story house was well kept, on its corner at Orchard Street and Lyon Avenue.

But the fire had spread rapidly through the wood-frame house. As firefighters continued knocking down the smoldering wood, visible through the broken windows, Botelho said, “I’m just glad nobody got hurt. That’s the important thing.”

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