Two seriously injured in Stoke house fire
It happened last night (Thursday)
A woman and a girl have been seriously injured in a serious house fire in Stoke-on-Trent.
West Midlands Ambulance Service received multiple 999 calls to reports of a house fire in Beverley Drive, Bentilee, Stoke-on-Trent at 10.57pm last night (Thursday).
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said:
“When ambulance crews arrived on scene, they found a house well alight. The two occupants, a woman and a girl, were out of the property.
“Ambulance staff worked as a team to provide specialist trauma care to the woman and the girl who had both sustained serious injuries in the fire.
"Once stabilised on scene the girl was conveyed on blue lights to Birmingham Children’s Hospital whilst the woman was blue lighted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham for further specialist care.”
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