Montreal's Bravest Rescue Disabled Girl from Burning Building
Mon, 2008-03-24 16:18.
Eight people were injured in a particularly intense fire overnight, 3 of them members of a same family.
The fire was in an apartment building at the corner of Fullum and de-la-Riviere in the East-end.
The first firefighters arriving at the scene managed to rescue a 10-year-old disabled girl from a back bedroom. She suffered from smoke inhalation, but her condition is not considered life-threatening.
Among the other people injured, a woman and her 2 children who were treated for smoke-inhalation as well as for superficial burns and cuts.
The fire, which took about 100 firefighters to put out, apparently started on the building's ground-floor but there's no word on the cause. Damage is estimated at over 200-thousand dollars.


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