Firefighters stopped a kitchen fire getting out of control after a firework was found alight on the floor.
A crew from Odsal was attending a small rubbish fire nearby when they were called to a house fire in Boynton Street, West Bowling, Bradford, with a report of people inside at about 9pm on Monday.
They found the door locked so they broke it down. No one was at home but the house was full of smoke.
Flames had spread from a lit firework on the kitchen floor to a door, the linoleum flooring and a pile of rubbish in a corner.
Crew manager Ben Bush said: "We suspect the firework was pushed through the letterbox - it's totally unacceptable. Luckily we were nearby and arrived within a minute. If there had been someone asleep inside and we would have had to come from the station it could have been fatal."
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