{"id":655278,"date":"2025-12-26T05:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/655278\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T05:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:11:08","slug":"strabane-and-newtownstewart-man-and-woman-rescued-following-two-separate-christmas-morning-flat-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/655278\/","title":{"rendered":"Strabane and Newtownstewart: Man and woman rescued following two separate Christmas morning flat fires"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Firefighters have rescued a man and a woman from two separate early morning fires.<\/p>\n

Shortly after 2am emergency services were called to reports of a fire at a flat in the Beechmount Village area of Strabane, Co Tyrone.<\/p>\n

Three fire appliances from the Newtownstewart and Strabane fire stations attended the incident.<\/p>\n

Firefighters in breathing apparatus rescued a woman from the property before providing first aid at the scene.<\/p>\n

The Belfast Telegraph understands the woman was taken to hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n

A short time later, firefighters were called to reports of a second flat fire, this time in Co Antrim.<\/p>\n

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Swimmers brave the cold for a traditional Christmas morning dip<\/p>\n

Three fire appliances from the Ballymena and Antrim fire stations raced to the Drumtara area of Ballymena at around 5am.<\/p>\n

Firefighters, again in breathing apparatus, rescued a man from the flat, The blaze was extinguished shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stock Image: Firefighters rescued the pair at separate fires Firefighters have rescued a man and a woman from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1211,1817,6723,1144,16,15],"class_list":["post-655278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-antrim-news","tag-derry-news","tag-kevin-scott","tag-northern-ireland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115784156443000395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655278","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=655278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}