Gosport firefighters praise quick-thinking resident who saved neighbour from burning decorating sheets
FIRE crews have been called out to burning sheets laid down for a DIY project in a Gosport flat, with a quick-thinking neighbour dousing the flames before they spread.
Two engines from Gosport fire station attended the small fire in a two-storey block of flats in Jamaica Place, near Gosport town centre, at 9pm this evening.
A fire had begun to spread across some sheeting laid down for a decorating project the flat’s hallway – but fire crews arrived to find it extinguished thanks to the prompt action of a neighbour, who heard a smoke alarm going off.
Crew manager Alex Hay said: ‘(The resident) was a sleep and some sheeting caught fire – we think it was from a discarded cigarette.
‘The fire alarm sounded and a neighbour heard it and they managed to get through the front door.
‘The neighbour did a good job, and the working smoke alarm made it so we didn’t have a worse job on our hands.’
An ambulance also attended to check residents for smoke inhalation.
The flat suffered minor smoke damage, and no one was injured during the incident.