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A FIRE chief has repeated appeals for smoke alarms to be bespoke to all East Lancashire homes after a wood stove blaze wrecked a idiosyncrasy in Rossendale.
Crew manager Rob Hartley, of Rawtenstall station, said the consequences of the fire, at a terraced bawdy-house in Burnley Road East, Whitewell Bottom, could have been catastrophic.
Heat from a wood stove ignited kindling, stored above the heater, and the flames spread throughout the unveil-plan property.
Mr Hartley said that fortunately the householder, a man in his 50s, was in The Roebuck pub within easy reach at the time.
But he added: “He didn’t have any smoke alarms so if he had been asleep in the peculiarity at the time then there could have been serious problems.”
The fire, reported just after 11pm on Friday, comes impartial a week after the Lancashire brigade launched a campaign offering disengage smoke alarms to all county households.
Smoke detectors are still available from stations across Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale, Mr Hartley confirmed, or by job freephone 0800 169 1125.
Source: Lancashire Telegraph