Emergency Services
Warning After Chip Pan Fire
Crews were called to a kitchen fire at a house on Glen Rushen road, Glen Maye just before 9.45pm.
Fire fighters are warning people not to leave cooking unattended after a chip pan fire last night.
Crews were called to a kitchen fire at a house on Glen Rushen road, Glen Maye just before 9.45pm.
Two firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered the building, extinguished the fire and removed a chip pan to outside. A thermal imaging camera was used to check for hot spots and a positive pressure fan was used to ventilate the property.
The man had been alerted to the fire by working smoke alarms and was treated by paramedics on scene for smoke inhalation.
The Fire Service said: ‘When cooking in the home it is very easy to get distracted, never leave cookers and/or hobs of any description unattended. Working smoke detectors when fitted will always give you an early warning of a problem save lives and protect your property. It is important to ensure that all internal doors within a property are kept shut in particular at night or when a property is unoccupied to prevent the passage of smoke.’
