Leyton house fire victim still in serious condition (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

Leyton house fire victim still in serious condition

1:16pm Tuesday 16th March 2010 in

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A PENSIONER who suffered 40 per cent burns in a house fire is still in a serious condition in hospital.

Sixty-five-year-old June Garvey was rescued from a blaze at her home in Warren Road, Leyton, on February 12, but suffered severe burns to her back, leg and arm.

The mother-of-three's daughter, Julie, said that one month on, Mrs Garvey, who is severely disabled following a brain haemorrhage more than ten years ago, remains in a serious but stable condition at the burns unit in Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.

She said: “She is no better, but no worse. They keep saying they will do more operations then change their mind. She has a long way ahead."

She added: “It is very stressful. The last 11 years have been stressful and to see mum in this condition is even more stressful. It is too much for us and our dad, but we are are hanging in there.”

The fire gutted the entire ground floor of the family home Mrs Garvey shared with her husband Peter, 68, and their youngest daughter, Kirsty, and destroyed most of their belongings.

It could take up to eight months to get it completely restored, the family says.

A spokesman for London Fire Brigade said that the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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