BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas — A Brazoria County deputy and a DPS Trooper were injured while trying to help a woman escape a house fire in the Pearland area overnight.
This happened just before midnight late Monday at a home at Abbeywood Drive at Ellsbury Lane.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said both the deputy and the trooper were transported to a local hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. The trooper has already been released.
Details about the house fire itself have not been released.
No other injuries were reported.
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