Nursing home fire - details??

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Can anyone fill me in with more details on this tragic event?? All I have heard so far is that it was somewhere in Sydney -- that several residents have been accounted for but there are many still missing -- anyone??

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wrong article..see next post...

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Police investigate fatal nursing home fire

Police and fire investigators are trying to find out the cause of a fatal fire at a nursing home in Sydney's south-west this morning.

Police say an 81-year-old woman who lived at Heiden Park Lodge at Carramar died shortly after being rescued from the burning building.

A spokesman for the fire brigade says the fire started in a bedroom of a unit at the home..

Three other residents are being treated for smoke inhalation in hospital.

Another 56 have been taken to hospital as a precaution.

http://abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-29jan2003-42.htm

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Thanks sunny -- should have known to check the ABC site first!!

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well done to the staff - it is sad that there was death - however l hope that al possible things that could be were done - and that no nurses gop the 'blame'

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