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Updated | Elderly woman in critical condition following Valletta blaze
Septuagenarian is taken to hospital after being rescued from building where a fire broke out in Valletta, police say.
1 February 2014, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
1 min read
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A 77-year-old woman from Valletta is in danger of dying after the building she lives in was extensively damaged by a blaze which started in a street-level shop.
The police said the woman inhaled smoke and could have suffered some other injuries. Another person was also rescued escaped uninjured.
The hospitalised woman lived on the third floor, the police said. The fire broke out at around 6am in a crafts shop in Old Bakery Street corner with St Lucia Street, VAlletta. The blaze quickly spread to two overlying apartments.
The blaze has been extinguished by members of the Civil Protection Department.
Joseph MELI •
Great work again by the largely unheralded CPD boys .However, on the subject of 'boys', why is that the CPD have no girls on active frontline duty or will this require an edict from the EU to demand such gender -equality quotas to ensure such ?Finally,I wonder what equipmment the CPD posseesses to fight any fires which may break out on our skyscraper buildings ?
