Man in hospital after SW fire
Posted Jan 6, 2016 4:54 pm.
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A man in his 20s has been taken to hospital after suffering minor smoke inhalation and mild carbon monoxide exposure from a house fire in the southwest.
Stuart Brideaux with EMS reports that they were called to the scene around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon to calls of a house fire of 0 to 100 block of Simcrest Manor and three people had been inside.
“Fortunately, two of the three did not sustain any injury and they had no concerns of needing transport to hospital by EMS, however, a third man, a gentleman in his early twenties had sustained some minor smoke inhalation and had some measurable carbon monoxide levels,” he said.
The man was taken to Foothills hospital in serious and non life-threatening condition and he was actually the one who put out the fire.
