GASTONIA, NC– Gastonia Fire Department rescued an elderly women who was trapped inside her home during a fire.
Firefighters responded to a house fire at 1327 Jay Avenue Tuesday, GFD located the resident of the home unconscious inside and carried her out the window.
It took firefighters 20 minutes extinguish the home that was filled with heavy smoke and flames.
The resident of the home was transported to Caromont Regional Medical Center with life threatning injuries, and then transported by air ambulance to the Wake Forest Baptist Burn Center in Winston Salem, NC.
