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22/10/2008
Woman Hurt In Glengormley House Blaze
One person has been treated for the effects of breathing in smoke and considerable damage has been caused to a private house which caught fire in Co Antrim earlier today.
The NI Fire & Rescue Service has confirmed they were called to a substantial blaze at a bungalow on the Antrim Road, Glengormley.
Three fire tenders - two from Glengormley and one from the Fire Service's Central Station, in Belfast - attended, along with the police, after the alarm was raised soon after noon today. An ambulance was also tasked to the scene.
While the police kept bystanders away and directed traffic, funnelling cars through a single lane on the busy main road, the fire was tackled by around 15 firemen.
An eyewitness said that the house - close to the Maxol filling station - was alight and that smoke was billowing from both the back and front of the property.
Adam McCalden, also from Glengormley, said that two fire tenders arrived at the scene very quickly and that at least one other one had been tasked from Belfast and arrived along the M2 motorway.
"The smoke was just pouring out of the house," he said.
Speaking from the scene, he said that although an ambulance arrived, "there was no immediate sign of anyone being recovered from the blazing building."
However, the Fire Service has since confirmed that a female, aged in her 60s, had to be treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.
A spokeswoman also said that the cause of the blaze was believed to have been accidental.
(BMcC)
The NI Fire & Rescue Service has confirmed they were called to a substantial blaze at a bungalow on the Antrim Road, Glengormley.
Three fire tenders - two from Glengormley and one from the Fire Service's Central Station, in Belfast - attended, along with the police, after the alarm was raised soon after noon today. An ambulance was also tasked to the scene.
While the police kept bystanders away and directed traffic, funnelling cars through a single lane on the busy main road, the fire was tackled by around 15 firemen.
An eyewitness said that the house - close to the Maxol filling station - was alight and that smoke was billowing from both the back and front of the property.
Adam McCalden, also from Glengormley, said that two fire tenders arrived at the scene very quickly and that at least one other one had been tasked from Belfast and arrived along the M2 motorway.
"The smoke was just pouring out of the house," he said.
Speaking from the scene, he said that although an ambulance arrived, "there was no immediate sign of anyone being recovered from the blazing building."
However, the Fire Service has since confirmed that a female, aged in her 60s, had to be treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.
A spokeswoman also said that the cause of the blaze was believed to have been accidental.
(BMcC)
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