BY IAN CROUCH
Emergency services and the region's Westpac Rescue Helicopter have been called to a house fire at Brightwaters.
Police, fire and ambulance crews arrived at the Bulgonia Road home just before 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning to find a fire in the kitchen.
Firefighters have extinguished the blaze with CO2 extinguishers.
NSW Ambulance says a woman in her 80's has been flown to hospital in a serious but stable condition with burns to the left side of her face and her left hand.