A WOMAN needed hospital treatment for smoke inhalation after a kitchen fire at her home on Wednesday (March 31).
Firefighters from Bury were called to the house in Topping Fold Road, Fairfield, shortly after 5pm. The woman (51) and a child had already fled the house.
Damage was confined to the cooker after a quantity of food had been left unattended under the grill.
A smoke alarm had been fitted in the house but the batteries had been taken out for other uses.
A spokesman for Bury Fire Station said: "There is no point in having smoke detectors if people take out the batteries.
"It is vital that alarms are working correctly as they do save lives."
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