Firefighters Extinguish Blaze at Senior Living Center

Firefighters from several fire departments quickly extinguished an early morning blaze that broke out on the eighth floor of the senior-living center on Detroit Avenue.

Several squads responded to the fire that broke out in the kitchen of Building No. 3 of the complex just before 7 a.m. Monday.

No one was injured, but the elderly woman who lives in the apartment was taken to and treated for smoke inhalation.

Barbara Stepanek, the administrator for the Westerly Apartments, said other residents in the building were not evacuated.

“It was a good outcome,” she said. “(The firefighters) showed up fast. They came immediately.”

Firefighers had to remove the window of the eighth-floor apartment to allow the smoke to escape.

There was no damage to any of the other apartments. In fact, Stepanek said in her 29 years at the Westerly, there’s never been a fire that’s escaped any of the apartments. 

“The building was very well built,” she said.

According to fire officials, departments from Fairview, Rocky River, Westlake and Bay Village responded to the blaze — along with several squads from Lakewood.