A drink and fry accident could have ended up far worse if it wasn’t for the help of three 17 year olds.
Early this morning around 3am a gentleman returned home from a night of drinking and decided to cook some sausages in a pan on a stove. The man went into another room to sit down and fell asleep leaving the pan unattended.
Richmond chief fire officer, Ralph Lonsdale, says the man was lucky he had smoke alarms that alerted the teenagers to the property.
“ The people walking past called the emergency services and broke into the house taking urgent action before the emergency services arrived. The man himself didn’t hear the smoke alarm going off because he was deep asleep”
He says smoke inhalation in that sort of situation was very common.
“In that sort of scenario that’s usually what happens. If it was a longer period of time the sausages would of course catch fire and smoke and possibly the whole house will go up. Of course if the person’s fast asleep they don’t wake up.”
The man was treated at the house by ambulance but wasn’t transported to hospital.
Ralph says it goes to show the dangers of drinking and frying and advises everyone to have smoke alarms installed.
