A man remains in a critical condition after a house fire in the Hunter region overnight.
\nEmergency services were called to a home on Peewee Close, in the Maitland suburb of Woodberry, about 6.45pm (Wednesday 3 July 2019), after neighbours noticed the home alight.
\nThe resident was evacuated from the home by neighbours.
\nFire and Rescue NSW attended and extinguished the blaze, which had been contained to the kitchen.
\nWhilst speaking with firefighters, the resident has suffered a medical episode and CPR was performed until the arrival of NSW Ambulance paramedics.
\nThe 84-year-old man was taken to John Hunter Hospital, where he remains in a critical condition.
\nOfficers from Port-Stephens Hunter Police District were notified, and initial inquiries suggest the fire is not suspicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man remains in a critical condition after a house fire in the Hunter region overnight. Emergency services were called to a home on Peewee Close, in the Maitland suburb of Woodberry, about 6.45pm (Wednesday 3 July 2019), after neighbours noticed the home alight. The resident was evacuated from the home by neighbours. Fire and … Continue reading “Resident critical after house fire – Hunter region”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}