Aberdeen OAP killed in flat fire terror

A PENSIONER has died after a fire broke out in her Aberdeen home.

The 66-year-old woman was left unconscious and had to be carried from her blazing home in Hilton Drive by firefighters.

But Grampian Police today confirmed she had died in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after being rescued.

Three fire engines, 14 firefighters, an ambulance and several police cars were called to the scene on the city’s Hilton Drive.

Fire crews used breathing equipment to get into the Hilton Drive property.

Neighbours said the pensioner was thought to have been overcome by the thick smoke in her Aberdeen home, where she lived alone.

Firefighters were called to the upper flat at Hilton Drive after a man living downstairs raised the alarm.

Grampian Fire and Rescue Service station manager Graeme Goonan said the woman was unconscious when she was rescued from the Aberdeen flat.

Mr Goonan said: “The fire crews found her within the building and she was taken out of the flat unconscious.”

Mr Goonan confirmed the Hilton Drive flat had been gutted by the blaze.

He said: “They had to fight as the fire had really taken hold.

“Due to the extent of the fire we had to cut away parts of the walls.”

Mr Goonan added paramedics had treated the woman at the scene and she was then taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

In a separate incident, fire crews had to rescue a woman from a blaze on Aberdeen’s King Street.

And in another incident north of Lonmay on the A90 Peterhead to Fraserburgh road farmhouse was gutted by fire.

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