Nursing home fire - details??

1. 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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   Jan 28, '03

   wrong article..see next post...
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   Jan 28, '03

   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/ne...jan2003-42.htm
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   Jan 28, '03

   Thanks sunny -- should have known to check the ABC site first!!
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   Feb 4, '03

   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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