GARDA INVESTIGATION INTO TUAM FIRE

Date Published: 04-Oct-2007

A Garda investigation is currently underway into a fire in Tuam last night where three children were rescued from a house in River Crest on the Dublin Road.Tuam Fire Brigade was alerted to the fire shortly after midnight when a neighbour noticed thick smoke billowing from the house.Fire services had to use breathing apparatus to enter the house where they found two children asleep and one child semi-conscious.The children aged between 3 and 10 were then removed from the house and were treated at the scene by paramedics for smoke inhalationIt's understood that no adults were in the house at the time of the fire