Two children suffered burns to the backs of their legs and their mother suffered serious smoke inhalation after a mobile home fire in south Windsor early Tuesday morning.
The two children were taken to Windsor Regional Hospital, but their conditions are not considered life threatening. They also had minor smoke inhalation.
Their mother was listed in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital, but she improved to stable condition.
Windsor fire crews were called 6 Marlin Crt around 3 a.m. Tuesday.
"The mother was in her bedroom, had left her bedroom and joined the kids in their bedroom and were huddled when firefighters arrived," says deputy fire Chief Brian McLaughlin.
Tim Rooms, who also lives on Marlin Court, says it was his 23-year-old step daughter, Kayla Valencourt and her three-year-old daughter and two-year-old son who lived there.
"There was flames coming out of the kids bedroom,” says Rooms. “There were ambulance there, and we just ran out there."
"They were in the ambulance on oxygen."
Family members say the children have been released from hospital and are staying with their father.
"The fire alarm was going off, the smoke alarm was going off,” says Rooms. “(Kayla) woke up to go to the washroom, if she didn't we could have lost her or the kids."
Three Windsor firefighters were also hurt in the blaze. One firefighter was sent to hospital with a leg injury.
"Obviously with the water and the amount of water being poured it becomes problematic when firefighting because it freezes almost instantaneously when it hits the ground," says McLaughlin.
An investigator with the Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal was called to the scene.
