A body was taken from a house in Harold's Cross, Dublin after the building went on fire in the early hours of this morning. Three units of the Fire Brigade, an ambulance and a senior fire officer arrived at the scene of the fire at Mountdrummond Avenue in the south of the city around 12.45 p.m. There were two people in the house at the time the blaze started. One of the occupants was rescued and taken to St James's Hospital, according to the Fire Brigade.