9 people escape Bristol house fire

Fire crews in Bristol were called to a house fire on Lodge Hill in Cossham at around 7am on 17th November.

A woman and two girls were rescued by firefighters from the roof of the property and six others managed to escape from the house before firefighters arrived.

Four ambulances attended the incident and took a baby, four children, two teenagers and two adults to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol.

A spokesman for the Avon Fire and Rescue Service said: “At 6.42am crews from Speedwell and Kingswood attended a house fire at Lodge Hill in Cossham. The service was advised that persons were reported missing in the property and on arrival crews found a developed fire on the ground and first floor of a private house with a number of people requiring rescue. In total there were nine people believed to be in the property, most of whom had already escaped. The service did rescue an adult and two children from the flat roof of the property where we believed they had escaped to. Unfortunately in addition, there was a family dog lost in the fire.”

A spokeswoman for the ambulance service said a boy, aged under five-years-old, was the most seriously injured and is being treated for burns.

The others, which includes a baby under 12-months-old, a boy under five, two girls under 10, two teenagers, a woman aged in her 20’s and a man in his 40’s, were taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure but one young boy required specialist care in the burns unit of the hospital.

An investigation into the cause of the fire will be carried out by the fire service and police teams.