Baby dies after Cannon Falls apartment fire
CANNON FALLS, Minn. (FOX 9) - One of three children seriously hurt in an apartment fire last week in Cannon Falls, Minnesota has died, a medical examiner's report shows.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office reports that 10-month-old Seqouyah Kelleymae Johnson died from smoke inhalation after the fire. According to the medical examiner's report, the infant died early Friday morning, about 36 hours after the fire.
Johnson was among three children who were pulled from the smoke-filled apartment during the fire at the Cannon Valley Apartments off 1st Street North at Northgate Circle on Wednesday.
The conditions of the other two children, a toddler and a seven-year-old, are not known. As of Thursday, they were stabilized in the burn unit and placed in medically-induced comas. The children's mother was also injured trying to save her children during the blaze and treated at a local hospital.
Investigators have not yet released the cause of the fire.