Five rescued from Bridgwater fire

10:01am Sunday 5th August 2012 in News

Five rescued from Bridgwater fire Five rescued from Bridgwater fire

FIVE people have been rescued from a flat in Bridgwater after a blaze there just before 1am today (August 5).

The fire crew first on the scene called for backup after finding the flat well alight, with three fire engines from Taunton and Bridgwater attending the Eastwood Close incident in total.

The first floor flat was consumed by fire and crews got to work rescuing people and firefighting.

At the height of operations, they used four breathing apparatus sets, two thermal imaging cameras, two main jets, one hose reel jet and a triple extension ladder.

One room within one of the flats was completely destroyed by fire and the remainder of it was totally damaged by smoke and heat.

Firefighters remained on the scene for some time to damp down hotspots with investigation of possible fire spread risk, but have now left. Fire investigation will continue this morning.

Comments(1)

juefieboo says...
10:18pm Tue 7 Aug 12

hi would just like to say residents wasnt left outside they were taken in by the landlord and lady of the pig and whistle and a local man jason cross was the lad which knocked the residents out of there beds and helped them out of there premises by taking a ladder off the fire engine the kind lady christine presented the landlady of pig and whistle with a lovley bunch of roses to say thank you for tea and coffee and staying up with them until they were aloud in there homes
this should ahave been printed not what you have printed please rectifie

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