Gloucester Fire Department In Action
Woman is hospitalized after house fire
(Courtesy of Gloucester Daily Times)
Photo by Bart Piscitello
Times staff
An elderly woman is in stable condition today after suffering from smoke inhalation during a fire at her home in Bay View Saturday afternoon.
Eleanor Beebe, 82, of 723 Washington St., was overcome from smoke and heat after she called 911 around 1:25 to say, "My house is on fire."
When they arrived on the scene, fire crews from the Bay View station set up a hose to fight the blaze in the kitchen while Capt. Miles Schlichte and firefighters Bob Fuller and Bruce Wonson searched for the woman.
Schlichte found her on the floor of the bathroom where she had made the call to the fire station. She was carried outside to the front porch.
Paramedics Eric Christopher and John Bell and firefighter Charles Scola revived Beebe, who had no vital signs.
After receiving cardio-pulmonary resuscitation by Christopher, the woman began breathing and regained her pulse. A rescue squad then brought her to Addison Gilbert Hospital.
Firefighters confined the flames to the kitchen, but other parts of the house sustained heat and water damage.
The cause of the fire has not yet been determined. State Trooper Paul Horgan of the state fire marshal's office, local Fire Inspector Joseph Mountain and Police Detective Kenneth Ryan are conducting a joint investigation.
