{"id":205291,"date":"2025-06-22T14:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T14:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/205291\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T14:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T14:17:14","slug":"two-rescued-from-flat-after-arson-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/205291\/","title":{"rendered":"Two rescued from flat after arson attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750245909_304_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/036f0db0-4f6b-11f0-bbb0-112520537b7a.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"BBC A grey end-terrace house with a boarded up door and windows. There is a grey fence in front of the house and a cloudy sky above. \" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>BBC<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at a flat in Princess Avenue, Cookstown<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Two people had to be rescued after an overnight arson attack on a flat in Cookstown, County Tyrone, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A man in his 40s and a woman in her 30s were inside the property in Princess Avenue when an accelerant was poured through the letterbox on the front door and set alight on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Firefighters removed the pair from the building and put out the blaze. Another fire at an outbuilding close to the property was also extinguished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said crews rescued the woman from a window ledge using a ladder.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750245909_304_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6be2a350-4f6d-11f0-86d5-3b52b53af158.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The front of the fire and smoke-damaged flat in Princess Avenue, Cookstown.   The front door has been detached and is leaning at an angle inside the porch of the grey two-storey building.  The glass in the door is smashed.  The wall inside looks blackened with smoke and the porch side window is boarded up. \" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The fire started at the front door when an accelerant was poured through the letterbox<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Thermal imaging was also used to search the flat for the man, who was eventually located in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The blaze was reported shortly after 00:50 BST on Sunday and crews were dispatched from Cookstown, Dungannon and Magherafelt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;The male and female were treated at the scene by colleagues from Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, then taken to hospital for treatment for smoke inhalation,&#8221; said a police spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Enquiries are continuing to establish the circumstances and at this stage, the incident is being treated as deliberate ignition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750245909_304_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3c92bd30-4f6b-11f0-bbb0-112520537b7a.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A concrete cream-coloured shed, with a burnt out window and door. There is a grey fence to the left of the shed and part of a grey house visible behind the fence. There are tall weeds growing in front of the shed. There is a cloudy sky above. \" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The blaze was reported shortly after 00:50 BST on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Second arson attack<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">There was a separate arson attack in Beechfield Manor,  Aghalee, in County Antrim. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Two vehicles were set alight and destroyed outside a property in the area sometime between 01:20  BST and 01:50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A nearby property and garage were also damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Firefighters extinguished the blaze. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC The incident happened at a flat in Princess Avenue, Cookstown Two people had to be rescued after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-205291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114727449247880315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}