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Smoke alarm debate revived after disabled woman dies

GRIEVING relatives have paid touching tributes to a disabled woman who died after a killer blaze swept through her home on Saturday morning.
Multiple Sclerosis sufferer Clare Hope, 62, who had been restricted to a wheelchair for the last six years, was caught in a ferocious fire at her fourth-floor flat in Tonbridge House in Tonbridge Street, King’s Cross.
The tragedy has revived concern over fire safety in council-owned blocks – many of which do not have smoke detectors.
During a frantic early-hours rescue attempt, carer Kim Bui and a team of more than 20 fire fighters helped Ms Hope out of the burning building.
But after suffering from burns and smoke inhalation, the librarian died at the Westminster and Chelsea Hospital the following day.
Ms Bui, who regularly took Ms Hope to the theatre and had been staying at the flat overnight ahead of a planned trip to see a play in Stratford-Upon-Avon on Saturday night, has been treated in intensive care but is expected to be released from hospital this weekend.

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