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UPDATE: Surrey woman dies trying to save cats from fire

Weekend fire is believed to have started by candles in the living area.
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A house fire Sunday (Jan. 29) night in the Fraser Heights neighbourhood of Surrey sent a 59-year-old woman to hospital in serious condition.


A woman has died trying to save her cats from a fire on the weekend.

At 10 p.m. Sunday, fire crews were called to a blaze in the 10500 block of Arbutus Wynd in Fraser Heights.

Two people were home at the time. A 61-year-old man had been trying to put the fire out with a garden hose, after he realized his wife had made it outside okay.

However, the 59-year-old woman went back into the house for her three cats, but got trapped in the blaze.

The woman was rescued from the home, given CPR, and was taken to hospital. She succumbed to her injuries Monday.

The cats did not survive the inferno.

Police and fire crews are not classifying the fire as suspicious.