A woman believed to be aged in her 50s was airlifted from a home at Stockton after suffering serious burns in a fire on Christmas Day.
NSW Ambulance inspector Mick O'Connor said emergency services were called to the home before 12pm yesterday after reports of a house fire.
"We have an approximately 50 year-old woman with serious burns," Inspector O'Connor said. "She is in a serious condition and being flown straight to Royal North Shore Hospital."
Residents had reported seeing fire trucks, and police and ambulance vehicles in the area as the Westpac Rescue landed at Griffith Park around midday.
The NSW Fire and Rescue crews were initially tasked to the fire, before one was called off before arriving at the scene.
The two remaining fire crews from Mayfield West and Stockton arrived to find smoke at the front of a single-storey building on Queen Street, a spokesperson for Fire and Rescue said.
Firefighters gained access to the home and found a woman inside. She was pulled from the building and was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being airlifted.
Firefighters worked their way through the home, but found no one else was inside.
A spokesperson said the fire appeared to have started in a bedroom.
Crews remained on the scene into the afternoon to ensure the building was safe and to douse and hotspots.
The blaze was extinguished a short time after 12pm.
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