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26/01/2009
Gardaí Rescue Mother From Burning Home
There was a dramatic blaze rescue near Dublin at the weekend.
A woman and her young family were saved after their house caught fire.
According to a gardaí spokesman, at about 4.15am on Sunday, police received a report of a house fire at Hilltown Close, Rivervalley, Swords in Dublin.
On arrival at the scene they found a female trapped in a first floor back bedroom.
A gardaí tried to enter the house by the front door but was beaten back by smoke and flames.
Officers then used a ladder from a neigbouring house to rescue the woman.
Three children aged 10, four and one year had earlier been rescued from the house by the boyfriend of the woman.
The man had arrived following a telephone call from the woman.
The woman, who is her late twenties, and the three children were taken to Temple Street Children's Hospital where they are being treated for smoke inhalation.
The house was extensively damaged in the incident and an investigation is under way into the cause of the fire.
Initial indications are that the cause of the fire was accidental
(DW)(BMcC)
A woman and her young family were saved after their house caught fire.
According to a gardaí spokesman, at about 4.15am on Sunday, police received a report of a house fire at Hilltown Close, Rivervalley, Swords in Dublin.
On arrival at the scene they found a female trapped in a first floor back bedroom.
A gardaí tried to enter the house by the front door but was beaten back by smoke and flames.
Officers then used a ladder from a neigbouring house to rescue the woman.
Three children aged 10, four and one year had earlier been rescued from the house by the boyfriend of the woman.
The man had arrived following a telephone call from the woman.
The woman, who is her late twenties, and the three children were taken to Temple Street Children's Hospital where they are being treated for smoke inhalation.
The house was extensively damaged in the incident and an investigation is under way into the cause of the fire.
Initial indications are that the cause of the fire was accidental
(DW)(BMcC)
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