A NEWPORT woman was rescued from her home by firefighters after a blazing car crashed into it early today.
It was believed the vehicle was deliberately set on fire before rolling into two houses in Aberthaw Road, Alway, said a spokeswoman for South Wales Fire Service.
She added: "The fire spread to the kitchen of one of the properties and crews, wearing breathing apparatus, extinguished the car before entering the property and rescuing the occupant from the smoke-logged house."
The woman, named locally as Betty Grant and believed to be in her seventies, was taken to the city's Royal Gwent Hospital.
Neighbour Mrs Pat Shorney said: "We saw them take Betty out of the house. She walked up the steps with the ambulance men.
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