Tuftonboro FD rescues woman trapped by house fire
January 06, 2021TUFTONBORO The Tuftonboro Fire and Rescue Department responded to a mid-day fire in a modular home on Pine Tree Drive in North Country Village on Dec. 5 in which the female occupant was trapped.
Chief Adam Thompson, reporting to the Board of Selectmen on Dec. 28, said the first units arrived to find that neighbors Rick Sargent and George Storch had shut the propane feeding a wall mounted propane heater in the area of the fire.
He said that Sargent then kicked in a locked back door and crawled into the smoke and heat filled home to pull the resident out to safety. She was placed in the police department s cruiser until Tuftonboro s ambulance arrived to transport her to Huggins Hospital for treatment for smoke inhalation and minor burns.