13 March 2012

Oxley house fire

| johnboy
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ACT Fire & Rescue has attended a fire in a house on Newman – Morris Circuit, Oxley.

Occupants inside the house extinguished the small fire.

Fire started in a bedroom of the three bedroom house and deemed accidental.
Minimal damage with the fire contained to the bedroom which sustained minor smoke damage.

Two fire pumpers on scene with the Hazardous Materials unit and a command vehicle.

Time of Emergency Triple Zero (000) call 10:33pm.

ACT Ambulance Service intensive care paramedics also on scene have assessed a mother and two children for smoke exposure and have transported an adult male with smoke inhalation to The Canberra Hospital in a stable condition for further assessment.

11:57pm Monday 12 March 2012

[Courtesy ESA]

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