Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service Newsdesk

Footes Field, off Tresawya Drive, Truro at 11/02/2012 01:03

Two fire appliances from Truro Community Fire Station and one fire appliance from Falmouth Community Fire Station (total of 16 firefighters) attended a report of a fire alarm sounding and a smell of burning from a flat.

Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus rescued one occupant, who was suffering the effects of smoke inhalation. They then used one hosereel to extinguish a fire in the kitchen of the flat on the first floor of a four-storey block, measuring 20 metres by 15 metres. The occupant was treated at the scene by ambulance personnel. A full evacuation of the block was carried out.

No further information is available from Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service about this incident.

For advice on how to prevent a fire in your kitchen, please follow the link below.

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