Four Taken to Hospital After House Fire

Earlier this morning fire crews from Peel and Douglas were called to a house fire that has left four people in hospital.

The fire was in the area of Patrick.

Upon arrival the incident commander could see that the fire was well alight with smoke and flames coming out of the windows and he quickly tasked a team to enter the property with a high pressure hose reel and fight the fire.

The occupants of the property had managed to get out but were suffering from smoke inhalation and first aid was administered until they could be handed over to paramedics.

In total four people were taken to hospital due to smoke inhalation.

The fire in the property was severe and had spread from the kitchen throughout the house but this was brought under control by breathing apparatus teams using high pressure hose reels.

Due to the intensity of the fire hot spots could be found in the ceiling joists and a number of breathing apparatus teams had to work to locate these hot spots and stop further fire spread.

Crews were in attendance for over three hours and a total of 10 personnel used breathing apparatus over this time.

Manx utilities attended the property to ensure that services were disconnected.

The fire service said: ‘We would like to thank our partners from the Police, Ambulance and Manx Utilities for their assistance in resolving this incident.’

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