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Article: Man suffers smoke inhalation after house fire
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- Gloucestershire Echo, The
- Article date:
- February 23, 2009
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A Man is recovering in hospital after suffering serious smoke
inhalation when a fire broke out at his house.
Martin Gardner was taken to Cheltenham General Hospital during
the early hours of Saturday after escaping a blaze which badly
damaged his house in Church Street, Cirencester.
A spokesman for the hospital said yesterday that Mr Gardner was
on a ventilator to help him breathe.
He added: "He's stable and awake and can understand what you say
to him, but can't talk because of the tubes of the ventilator."
Firefighters were called to the blaze at 12.45am on Saturday. Two
engines from Cirencester and one from Tetbury fire station were
needed to deal with the fire, using hoses and breathing ...