HOUSEHOLDERS are being warned to get smoke detectors fitted after two chip pan fires at Burnley homes which didn't have them.
Leading Firefighter Gary Kiyani said: "In both cases a smoke detector would have alerted the occupant to the fire much sooner."
At 11.15am on Friday, firefighters were called to a house in Daisy Bank Crescent, Burnley, where a 70-year-old man had left a chip pan on a gas cooker and it caught fire.
He carried the burning pan outside and sprayed the fire in the kitchen with a garden hose.
Mr Kiyani said: "He managed to put the fire out but it more or less destroyed the kitchen. We have now fitted a smoke alarm.
"In the second incident, at a house in Rosehill Road at 2.20pm, a 15-year-old girl was making chips on the gas cooker when the oil caught fire.
"She closed the door and called us out and managed to rescue five of her six puppies and her dog by carrying them outside in a suitcase.
"We found the sixth puppy cowering near the kitchen door and rescued it."
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