By Ben Fractenberg
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS — An elderly woman was injured in an apartment fire Wednesday afternoon at the Douglass Houses in Morningside Heights, authorities said.
The fire apparently started because of a faulty electrical cord in the woman’s 14th floor apartment in the Columbus Avenue building, south of West 104th Street, police and fire sources said. FDNY responded to the call about 12:43 p.m.
The woman, whose age was not immediately available, was taken to St. Lukes Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, a police officer at the scene said.
One firefighter suffering from heat exhaustion was taken from the building in a stretcher and treated at the scene, a fire commander said.
The woman's neighbors said they noticed smoke in the hallways around noon and fled the building.
