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Woman and girl taken to hospital after Wolverhampton house fire rescue

A woman and a girl were taken to hospital after being rescued from a house fire in Wolverhampton.

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St Anne's Road, Wolverhampton. Photo: Google.

Fire crews were called to a house in St Anne's Road, at at 9.30pm on Monday.

The fire broke out in a rear bedroom of the three-bedroom, semi-detached property.

Nobody else is thought to have been injured.

A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "We were called to reports of a house fire on St Annes Road at 9.33pm and sent one ambulance, a paramedic officer and our Hazardous Area Response Team to the scene.

"On arrival we discovered two patients who were treated for the effects of smoke inhalation.

"A teenage girl was taken to New Cross Hospital for further assessment whilst a woman was discharged at the scene."

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