Woman rescued from burning home
Published: February 11, 2006
The mood among Lima firefighters was upbeat Friday as they went about their daily choirs hours after pulling a woman from a burning house overnight.
Lima firefighters received the call of a house fire at 12:29 a.m. Friday at 1031 Burch Avenue. Minutes later they were searching the house and found a woman lying on stairs leading to the basement, Platoon Chief Ed Hower said.
“We ran across her,” Hower said. “It was a good save from our end.”
The woman, whose identity has not fully been established since she was incoherent after the rescue, was breathing when firefighters found her. She was overcome by smoke possible trying to escape the fire, Hower said.
Firefighters quickly removed the woman from the house. She was loaded into an ambulance and rushed to St. Rita’s Medical Center.
Firefighters believe she is the 34-year-old woman whose name was on mail found at the residence, Hower said.
No one else was home at the time of the fire which was reported by one of the neighbors, he said.
A cause has not been determined, Hower said.
The fire started in a bedroom and spread to another bedroom before it was contained, however, there was smoke damage throughout the house. Damage was estimated at $25,000, Hower said.
Meanwhile, an 82-year-old woman, Florence Beegle, pulled from a fire in Van Wert County on Tuesday was listed in stable condition at Lima Memorial Health Systems, a spokesman for that hospital said.
Beegle was inside her burning trailer at 9188 John Brown Road, Lot 67 when a Van Wert County sheriff’s deputy pulled her out.
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