Fire crews save two dogs from smoke-logged kitchen after cardboard left on hob
Fire crews broke into a house to save save two dogs from a smoke-logged property.
Some cardboard had caught fire when it was left on a hob in a house near Oswestry this morning says the fire service.
But when fire crews arrived on the scene they found two small dogs were trapped in the heavily smoke logged kitchen.
James Lewis, of Oswestry Fire Station said: "Fire crews had to break entry into the property to save two dogs from a heavily smoke logged kitchen."
He added that the incident could have been a lot worse if the service had not been called early. He asked people to take extra precautions in the kitchen to to prevent such accidents.
He said: "This fire could have been a lot worse if there had been no early interaction from the fire service, please remember to take extra precautions in the kitchen to prevent accidents like these."
Three fire appliances had been scrambled from Baschurch, Oswestry and Shrewsbury to Dovaston, off the A5 north of Shrewsbury at 8.59am.
Crews used breathing kit and a hosereel jet to deal with the incident.
A spokesperson for Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service said it was a "small fire which was caused by cardboard left on hob which was out on arrival of crews".
The incident was declared over at 9.33am.
