A BLIND pensioner was given oxygen after a cooker fire at his flat.
The blaze damaged a grill pan in the 79-year-old man's home at the Waverley Place sheltered housing complex in School Street, Radcliffe.
Because of his poor sense of smell, the man had been initially unaware of the outbreak.
A Whitefield fire crew administered oxygen to the pensioner following Sunday's (Sept 17) blaze, but he declined hospital treatment.
Officers ventilated the flat and were at the scene for 45 minutes.
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