BATON ROUGE - A woman was saved from her apartment after an iron left on caused a fire in her kitchen. 

Baton Rouge firefighters said an iron was left on and unattended in an apartment on Hollywood Street shortly after 8 a.m.. One of the residents of the apartment, a woman, was rescued from the bedroom and taken to a hospital, but her injuries were minor.

The fire was extinguished within ten minutes but caused approximately $10,500 in damage.