10 November 2013

 

Police Save Family From Fire

Two Bedfordshire Police officers saved a family from a house fire in Arlesey last night by putting out the blaze and rescuing a woman from an upstairs bedroom.

 

The incident happened in Cluny Way, Arlesey at around 12.30am this morning (Sunday) after receiving a 999 call from a mother of three saying she and her family were trapped in an upstairs bedroom due to a fire downstairs.

 

The Fire Service was on route but still a few minutes away, and while the three children had been lowered to safety from an upstairs window to a member of the public who bravely came to their aid, the mother was still trapped. When officers, who were close by, arrived they forced entry to the house before extinguishing the fire in the kitchen, enabling the woman to escape unharmed.

 

Both officers suffered the effects of smoke inhalation, but did not require treatment. The woman and her family were not harmed. An investigation into what caused the fire is now under way.

 

Inspector Jim Goldsmith who deployed the officers to the fire last night said: “This was a selfless act by the officers and the member of the public who also came to this family’s rescue. The Fire Service were just minutes away but the officers thought nothing of breaking in and putting out the blaze with no thought to their own safety. It doesn’t bear thinking about what might have happened had they not acted so bravely.”