Residential kitchen fire brings crew into action
A KITCHEN fire left two residents with minor breathing difficulties last night.
Southsea Fire Station was called out to Richmond Road, Southsea, at around 6.30pm, after a resident had left something cooking unattended on the hob in their kitchen.
A crew attended the building an evacuated it immediately, before quickly extinguishing the blaze.
Two residents had inhaled smoke from the fire, and were subsequently assessed by an ambulance crew – which arrived on the scene shortly after the incident took place.
Nobody was seriously injured during the incident.