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Three rescued from house fire.
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Byline: KATE COONEY
FIREFIGHTERS who rescued three men from a burning house in the early hours of New Year's Eve say the victims were lucky to escape with their lives because the property was not fitted with a smoke alarm.
The middle-aged men were downstairs when fire crews arrived and led them out of the smoke-filled building to safety, after the fire broke out in the hot-press area of the terraced Ballymena house, at around 3.20am.
One of the men was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation.
Ballymena Divisional Officer Tom Dowds, who attended the Upper Princes Street blaze, said: ...
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