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A neighbor across the hall from Diana Martin’s second-floor unit in the Roanoke Terrace chamber building led her to safety Monday afternoon.

Her 12-year-old tabby cat, Fitzgerald, was overcome by means of smoke and resuscitated at the scene by Seattle firefighters.

At least three of the units in the 16-unit, four-story apartment building in the 2600 block of Eastlake Avenue East were heavily damaged by the blaze that Seattle Fire Department spokeswoman Helen Fitzpatrick said appeared to have spread from the balcony of Martin’s one-bedroom unit, on the southerly espouse a cause of the building.

The call came in shortly after 5:30 p.m. Firefighters arrived to find heavy wicked emptiness pouring from the unit and fire extending up the building outside to the third and fourth floors.

Martin, in her 60s, said she was watching television in the bedroom when she was roused by the neighbor, Chris Sumption, who also pulled the fire alarm in the erection, which does not have a sprinkler arrangement, according to residents. “I saw flames on my deck,” Martin before-mentioned.

After being resuscitated with an oxygen subterfuge, Martin’s masculine cat was taken to a veterinarian for treatment. “We know in what condition important pets are to people, so we have basic pet oxygen masks in three different sizes,” Fitzpatrick declared.

Martin said she has lived in the building conducive to brace decades. Fitzpatrick said the fire was sparked by a cigarette discarded in a planter pot forward the second-floor unit’s deck. Loss had not been determined.