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· Isle of Man
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Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2007-02-18
Intro: A quick-thinking neighbour may have saved the life of a woman who slept through a smoke alarm during a flat fire in the Isle of Man.
The woman called the emergency services after hearing the alarm next door at Lheannag Park in Douglas.
Her neighbour, a woman in her 40s, was given oxygen after suffering from the effects of breathing in smoke, but declined hospital treatment. . . .
Fire crews found a discarded cigarette had fallen into a box of tissues and began to smoulder, causing the fire.
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