His voice occasionally cracking with emotion, Jack Edwards, chief of Lake Country Fire and Rescue, gave his governing board last week a detailed and dramatic account of the Sunday, July 1, fire in downtown Oconomowoc that killed a 45-year-old woman and nearly claimed the life of a veteran firefighter who was trying to rescue her. ... Edwards told the Fire Board that LaVenture was within "a minute or two" of death when firefighters found him in the upstairs apartment.