A GRANDMOTHER who saved her grandchildren by making them breathe fresh air through a letterbox in a door during a blaze has finally come out of hospital.
Julie Garforth, 57, has been hailed a hero following the fire which gutted her home at Barnsley Road, Cudworth, on February 8.
She suffered severe smoke inhalation, was kept in an induced coma for seven weeks and was only allowed out of hospital last Thursday.
But her grandchildren Ruby and Cohen Phillis, aged six and five, were only kept in hospital overnight as a precaution and allowed home the next day because Julie made the youngsters breathe cleaner air through the letterbox until fire crews rescued them.
The trio had been trapped in the house as Julie had been unable to find a key to open the front door and flames blocked the back door.
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