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| Annaclone farm fire: Search for 82-year-old man | Annaclone farm fire: Search for 82-year-old man |
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| An 82-year-old man is feared dead following a fire at a farmhouse in Annaclone in County Down. | An 82-year-old man is feared dead following a fire at a farmhouse in Annaclone in County Down. |
| Emergency services were called to the farm at Ballynafern Road at about 07:20 GMT on Saturday. | |
| South Down MLA Jim Wells said the man uses a wheelchair. Firefighters have now left the scene as the fire is out. | |
| It is understood part of the first floor of the farmhouse collapsed and emergency services have to wait until it is safe to go in. | |
| Police are now leading the search for the man. | |
| Independent South Down assembly member John McCallister told the BBC the fire had shocked the entire community. | |
| "Obviously I live very close to here. I could see the fire literally as soon as I got up this morning, it was huge," he said. | |
| "The entire community is in shock - just the ferociousness of the fire and tragic loss - this is somebody I've known all my life, just such a sad loss for the family, it's unbelievable." | "The entire community is in shock - just the ferociousness of the fire and tragic loss - this is somebody I've known all my life, just such a sad loss for the family, it's unbelievable." |