Two Kitchen Fires, Minutes Apart In Weymouth

An unattended cooking pan's been blamed for causing a fire at a block of flats in Weymouth yesterday morning. (12th January)

Firefighters used breathing apparatus in Stavordale Road - where they found a fire had broken out in the kitchen, causing smoke damage to the room.

Meanwhile just minutes earlier crews were called to an electrical fire at a commercial premises in Great George Street, also in a kitchen.

The premises was evacuated and the fire had already been put out by the time crews got there.