A man escaped a burning house in Co Monaghan after gardaí rescued him using a ladder from a neighbouring home.
At 2.45am on Friday gardaí at Castleblayney received a report of a fire and a man trapped at a house in Upper Bree.
Two officers went immediately to the scene and on arrival found a man, in his 40s, trapped in an upper room.
They located a ladder at a nearby house and used it to rescue him. He was treated at the scene by ambulance personnel but was not taken to hospital.