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A woman is dead, her daughter and a Uniontown police officer injured after an early morning blaze today on Cleveland Avenue North near State Route 619. Officer Joshua Pirogowicz scaled to a balcony near a window where the victim was reportedly waiting for help, but the Canton Repository reports he was unable to get through a door and the heat and smoke inside was too much to get inside.

The fire broke out around 2:30 a.m. When police and fire arrived, the daughter was in the driveway shouting for help for her mother, who was still in the house on the second floor but near a window.

The daughter of the victim and Pirogowicz were taken to the hospital. There was no word on the condition of the woman but Pirogowicz reportedly suffered smoke inhalation and burns to the throat. 

The woman's name has not been released; an autopsy from the Stark County Coroner is scheduled. Two family pets, a dog and a cat, were also killed in the fire. 

Fire departments from nearby Hartville, Green, Greenville and Lakemore also responded with mutual aid.