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Dec. 02--A two-alarm fire partially burned a Woodside home Thursday afternoon and sent a woman and a sheriff's deputy to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the town's fire chief.
The cause of the fire on the 200 block of Eleanor Drive is not yet known, said Woodside Fire Protection District Chief Dan Ghiorso. The blaze gutted one room and damaged part of the roof. Firefighters extinguished it in 10 to 12 minutes, he added.
A woman and an elderly man were inside when the fire broke out just before 3 p.m.
The woman, who burned her hands trying to put out the fire, was outside the home when firefighters and other public safety officials arrived, Ghiorso said.
"She said someone was inside," Ghiorso said, so a sheriff's deputy went into the home and escorted the man to safety.
The woman was then taken to a hospital, along with the deputy, who needed treatment for smoke inhalation.
More information about the fire was not immediately available because investigators did not get a chance to interview the woman before she was taken to a hospital.
Eight engines and two trucks were sent to the fire, which was elevated to two alarms because of the call for rescue, Ghiorso said.
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