Old folk saved in night blaze
TWENTY-FIVE patients - all old age pensioners - were evacuated in their night clothes when fire broke out in the hospital block of Campbeltown’s Witchburn Home for old people late on Monday night.
The old people, many of whom are crippled, were carried to safety minutes after the alarm was raised by nurses from the home and other local hospitals, helped by a squad of almost 50 volunteers who had arrived with the fire brigade.