02/10/2008
Arsonist Sought
Police are probing two overnight fires at a house in Co Tyrone where two cars were destroyed.
They are treating the incidents as arson after the fire service was called twice to the same house on Ballygawley Road at about 1.30am. The two cars were destroyed in separate fires.
The McDowell family-of-six were at home at the time, and Una McDowell said the house has been targeted before.
Meanwhile, last night, although a mother and her baby daughter have been safely rescued from a house fire in Londonderry, a 73-year-old woman rescued from a fire at a house in Co Antrim is reported as being critically ill.
It is believed the Co Londonderry blaze - at about 11.30pm - was started after an unattended cooker caught fire in the kitchen.
Firefighters were called to the house at Ridgeway Drive in Currynierin after neighbours raised the alarm.
They led the mother and daughter to safety, and both escaped injury.
Meanwhile, the PSNI said that their officers were called to the Ballymoney, Co Antrim alert when the alarm was raised at an elderly woman's house in Rowan Road at about 10pm on Wednesday.
On arrival, firefighters had already got the pensioner out of the building.
The woman has been taken to hospital, where her condition is now described as "critical".
The police said this morning that the cause of the blaze is under investigation.
(BMcC)
They are treating the incidents as arson after the fire service was called twice to the same house on Ballygawley Road at about 1.30am. The two cars were destroyed in separate fires.
The McDowell family-of-six were at home at the time, and Una McDowell said the house has been targeted before.
Meanwhile, last night, although a mother and her baby daughter have been safely rescued from a house fire in Londonderry, a 73-year-old woman rescued from a fire at a house in Co Antrim is reported as being critically ill.
It is believed the Co Londonderry blaze - at about 11.30pm - was started after an unattended cooker caught fire in the kitchen.
Firefighters were called to the house at Ridgeway Drive in Currynierin after neighbours raised the alarm.
They led the mother and daughter to safety, and both escaped injury.
Meanwhile, the PSNI said that their officers were called to the Ballymoney, Co Antrim alert when the alarm was raised at an elderly woman's house in Rowan Road at about 10pm on Wednesday.
On arrival, firefighters had already got the pensioner out of the building.
The woman has been taken to hospital, where her condition is now described as "critical".
The police said this morning that the cause of the blaze is under investigation.
(BMcC)
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