Smoke alarm saves elderly woman

A SMOKE alarm saved an elderly woman from certain death yesterday after fire ripped through her farmhouse.

Thu, 17 Apr, 2008 - 01:00

It was one of several fires which broke out in Cork during the day.

The woman, who is in her 80s, was asleep in an upstairs bedroom of the farmhouse, about 5km outside Skibbereen, when the smoke alarm went off at about 5am.

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