Cooking sparks blazes.
Fire crews were called to two house fires in Middlesbrough today - both sparked by unattended cookers and involving missing or defective smoke alarms.Firefighters from Middlesbrough were called to an elderly man's smoke-logged home in Whinney Banks Road soon after 8am.
They discovered the battery had been removed from a ground floor smoke alarm - luckily the man was alerted by the smoke alarm on the upper floor.
The crews were then immediately sent to a fire in Wicklow Street in the town centre.
There was no smoke alarm in the house.
Station Officer Bill Hatfield, of Middlesbrough fire station, said: "The significant things were both fires were started in food left unattended in cookers and both had some problem with the smoke alarms."
* You can get a free home visit by fire crews to talk about a fire safety plan and have smoke alarms fitted by calling your local fire station.
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| Title Annotation: | News Local |
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| Publication: | Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) |
| Date: | Dec 16, 2003 |
| Words: | 151 |
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