HAGUE, Sask. – A family of four has lost their home after an early morning house fire in the hamlet of Neuanlage on Friday morning.
RCMP received a 911 call just after 6 a.m. when emergency crews arrived on scene.
Everyone was out of the house but the mother and her young child were suffering from burns.
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The family drove the 40 kilometres to Saskatoon and stopped at a 7-11 on Assiniboine Drive.
Saskatoon Fire and Protective Services and MD Ambulance responded and transported the mother with minor burns and the child with serious burns to Royal University Hospital.
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The father and another child were not injured.
The Hague fire department has not yet determined the cause; however, Troy Davies with MD Ambulance says when paramedics were treating the family they said their Christmas tree started the blaze.
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