SEATTLE — One woman is hospitalized after a fire ripped through a Seattle apartment building. It happened about 9 p.m. on 14th Avenue South.
"I'm in my room, I'm in my room, lights are all off and I'm ready to sleep” Ashley Tabila tells us.
Tabila says she was using pain medication after having her wisdom teeth pulled.
“My stepdad yells and says there's a fire, and I thought it was a neighbor and we come out and it's downstairs, our neighbors,” she explains.
Tabila lives with her parents and her young son on the third floor but they smelled the smoke and saw the flames first.
"They were really big and I was nervous,” her stepfather, Angelito Tabalehe, says.
Tabila says they pounded on the doors below them, trying -- unsuccessfully -- to wake the residents, "but God thank you, the firefighters were able to get them out, but smoke came out -- they were already sleeping."
Tabila thinks there were maybe eight people in the building. One resident was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation and two others were treated at the scene. At least two of the apartments are ruined but Tabila isn't sure if one is theirs.
"I pray and hope not but as of now I'm just thankful for our safety,” she says.
Fire officials say they have an investigator on the scene and had the fire under control in about 15 minutes.