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Two people in critical condition after child starts fire with cigarette lighter
Two people are in a critical condition in hospital after a house fire in Bentilee. One child also required hospital treatment and three others escaped unhurt.
The incident happened on the morning of Monday 20th December and is thought to have been started by a three year old child playing with a cigarette lighter.
Firefighters took over an hour to put out the fire which started in one of the bedrooms. Luckily the smoke alarms were triggered which enabled the children in the other bedroom to evacuate the building quickly.
Mick Daniels, Newcastle station manager said “This incident highlights the importance of smoke alarms – without them the other children would not have been aware of the fire until it had developed further and could have then ended up trapped.”
The local community are helping the family, who lost most of their possessions in the fire, by collecting clothes, food and even Christmas presents.
Firefighters tackle fire in disused hotel
It has been reported that fire crews from Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue service were called to a major hotel fire in Torquay at the weekend.
The blaze ripped through the property, which is located on the seafront in Torquay, Devon, with firefighters having to battle in order to get the situation under control.
It took six of the county’s appliances to handle the fire at the Palm Court Hotel.
The fire service has said that it was thought than nobody was in the building at the time of the blaze, which began at around 6:30am on Saturday morning.
Thick smoke, as well as a number of bangs, were heard and reported by concerned onlookers due to the ferocity of the flames which consumed the hotel.
Liberty Feist, a local resident of Torquay, speaking to BBC News, said:
“You could see a thick black plume of smoke all along the seafront.
“There were sounds of windows cracking and breaking in the heat of the fire which was so severe it broke through the roof.”
The police have now confirmed that an investigation into the cause of the fire is now underway. It is not known whether arson is involved at this stage.
Bradford food factory badly damaged in blaze
Over 50 firefighters had to tackle a fire a fire at a food processing factory in Bradford, West Yorkshire, at the weekend, with the damage thought to have been quite extensive.
Fire crews from six stations joined the special units and firefighters from Odsal and Bradford in helping to keep the fire under control at the meat packaging plant, which started just after 2:00am on Saturday morning.
Thick smoke was seen coming from the building and part of the roof caved in.
Odsal watch commander Peter Rushby said:
“There was a lot of smoke and flames when we arrived.
“The fire had spread from the yard into the building and there were still isolated pockets of fire at 7.30am today.
“We were hampered by the weather because there was at least two or three inches of snow on the ground, which hampered the appliances getting to the incident. It was very treacherous on the roads and, once we were there, we started using water, which was freezing.”
It was expected that about a fifth of the single-storey factory, which is located in Haycliffe Lane, Wibsey, was destroyed in the incident.
An investigation is now underway into the cause of the fire, although police have said that arson is suspected.
Wallington house blaze
Three people have escaped a house fire in Wallington.
The fire broke out at 7.30pm in the building on Oxford Road, Wallington. No one was seriously injured in the blaze but three people were treated for smoke inhalation and one needed hospital treatment.
Most of the third floor of the building was damaged by the fire. An investigation into the cause of the fire is being carried out.