By Ben Fractenberg and Jennifer Glickel
DNAinfo Reporter/Producers
MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS — A small fire broke out in a Columbus Avenue apartment on Monday afternoon, sending one person to the hospital as a precautionary measure.
The blaze started at 2:10 p.m. in an apartment on the 12th floor of the Douglass Houses at 860 Columbus Avenue at 104th Street. The FDNY had the fire in apartment 12A under control by 2:44 p.m., according to officials on the scene.
Officlals said the fire erupted in the kitchen and the cause was believed to be electrical.
A young asthmatic woman was taken out of the building on a stretcher and brought to the hospital as a precaution. An older woman refused medical treatment at the scene, according to a fire chief at the scene.
Fire officials said that approximately 65 firefighters responded to the scene.
Another fire broke out on the 14th story of the same building last summer, sending an elderly woman to the hospital.