WOMAN RESCUED FROM CITY CENTRE APARTMENT FIRE

Date Published: 21-May-2010

A young woman has been rescued from a fire in a city centre apartment.

She’s been taken to University Hospital Galway for treatment for smoke inhalation.

The woman raised the alarm at ten past nine this morning after she woke up and noticed smoke coming from the kitchen of her apartment on St Augustine Street.

Two units of Galway fire brigade were on the scene within three minutes and took the woman out the top window of the apartment.