Officers rescue elderly woman in wheelchair from burning home

Dramatic imagination has captured nan infinitesimal constabulary officers rescued an aged couple, 1 of whom was successful a wheelchair, and their grandson from flames that engulfed their location connected nan Gold Coast.

Officers were conducting regular patrols erstwhile they saw fume billowing from Golden Four Drive successful Tugun astir 12.40am connected Sunday.

When they sewage closer, they noticed a occurrence on nan pavilion of an upstairs unit.

Police body-cam footage showed an serviceman grabbing an extinguisher from nan car to put retired nan flames.

But erstwhile they opened nan beforehand door, they saw heavy clouds of achromatic fume wrong that 1 serviceman said had "completely engulfed" nan home.

The officers, who were coughing from nan fume inhalation, grabbed immoderate adjacent towels and doused them successful h2o earlier entering nan location and locating nan couple.

"There's a occurrence successful your house. The washing instrumentality is connected fire," 1 serviceman could beryllium heard saying.

"You jump into your wheelchair and I'll return you out."

The imagination shows 2 officers helping 77-year-old Glenda Maskelyne successful a wheelchair retired of nan location and carrying her down nan stairs to safety.

"I've ne'er gone down those steps truthful accelerated successful my life," Maskelyne said.

"I honestly judge that personification put that constabulary car astatine nan bottommost of our steps astatine that peculiar time."

Her 76-year-old husband, Ian, and their 14-year-old grandson besides escaped safely. 

It was a startling measurement to footwear disconnected Ian's birthday. 

"Half past one, we're retired there, and I said, 'by nan way, happy birthday, darling,'" Maskelyne said.

"He says, 'I'm not gonna hide this one, americium I?"

The officers were seen utilizing mini occurrence extinguishers to effort to calm down nan occurrence while they waited for firefighters to arrive.

"It's excessively large for occurrence extinguishers now. We've utilized three," 1 serviceman could beryllium heard saying.

Firefighters contained nan occurrence to nan room and extinguished it. Many of nan couple's belongings person been saved.

The occurrence is not being treated arsenic suspicious and is believed to person been caused by electrical equipment.

Paramedics were besides called to nan segment and assessed nan officers, mates and their grandson for fume inhalation.

No 1 was earnestly injured.

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