Lives of 4 Rome blaze rescuers at risk - doctors

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 22 - Four rescuers who intervened to extinguish a maxi brushwood fire that broke out on the outskirts of Rome Wednesday, a firefighter and three civil protection workers, are in critical, life-threatening condition, Giuseppe Spaltro, who heads the burns unit of the Sant'Eugenio Hospital in the capital, said on Thursday.
    Spaltro said the most critically injured is a 51-year-old firefighter who is the only one not to be intubated but has burns on 54% of his body.
    Three out of four rescuers "will have surgery next week to remove the necrotic part of burns and undergo a skin transplant from the donor bank in Cesena.
    "Other surgeries will follow", added the doctor. (ANSA).