Blaze at pensioner's flat (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
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Blaze at pensioner's flat
10:01am Tuesday 1st January 2008 in
A pensioner may have inadvertently started a blaze in her flat with a burning cigarette.
The woman's settee went up in smoke in her first floor flat at Whetley Hill, Manningham, at around 9.30pm on New Year's Eve.
A neighbour raised the alarm and the woman was checked over by paramedics and taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary as a precautionary measure.
Firefighters attended for around 45 minutes and the living room was smoke damaged.
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