8.49 PM Friday 30 July 2010

Woman dies after fire at her Poole home

An elderly Poole woman has died after she was taken to hospital following a fire in her home – the cause of the fire is not being treated as suspicious.

Shortly before 9am on Monday, 2 November 2009, police were called by Dorset Fire & Rescue Service to a house on Coventry Crescent in the Creekmoor area of Poole where there had been a fire.

The elderly occupant – an 86-year-old woman – was rescued from her home by fire fighters and tended to by ambulance paramedics before being taken to Poole Hospital where sadly she died.

Next of kin and the coroner have been advised and we await a post mortem to determine the cause of death.