PORT SALERNO - He remembered the flames billowing from the second floor. And his neighbor screaming, “My wife! My wife!”.

Two days after a fire blazed in a corner unit of a waterside condo building on Manatee Lane, a resident there recalled the panic and pain that night..

About 2:40 a.m. Saturday, Martin County firefighters arrived at the 4600 block of Manatee to battle the blaze that killed a woman..

She was upstairs when the fire broke out, remembered the neighbor, who declined to give his name. Her husband was on the ground floor, trying to put out the flames with a garden hose. It was not enough, the man said.

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