featured-image

A woman who was airlifted to hospital after a fire at her home has launched a fundraiser after her family lost all of their possessions in the blaze. Artist Sarah Brown, who had lived at the house in Port Erin for the last 25 years, said she had lost her electronics, clothes, shoes, books and hundreds of her own paintings. The Fire and Rescue Service were called to the Edremony estate in Port Erin at roughly 1pm on Friday amid reports of a large-scale housefire.

Residents of the estate were evacuated and the area was cordoned off, while some people in the town described how they could smell the fire and see the smoke from their houses approximately half a mile away. Some objectors 'still worried' as billionaire's wind turbine plan at mansion rejected The small monitoring station two miles off Port Erin recording big findings Time, route and location of the Red Arrows' display at Isle of Man TT 2024 Everything we know about the fire that tore through home and shut down part of estate Shortly after the blaze broke out, an air ambulance was spotted landing on the fields of Rushen Primary School. It was later confirmed that one of the occupants of the house had been airlifted to hospital to receive treatment.



This occupant, Sarah Brown, has described her ordeal as ‘devastating’. She said: ‘I was helicoptered to Noble’s Hospital on oxygen and discharged after a scan and medication. ‘It was just smoke inhalation, but I was coughing black for two days.

‘I rescued my litt.

Back to Health Page