A MAN has been rescued from a flat fire in Winchester.

Firefighters were sent from Winchester and Eastleigh to a kitchen fire in Sarum Road on Friday morning at around 3am, where one man was helped to flee a ground floor flat.

The crews – led by crew manager Timothy James – used two breathing apparatus, one main jet, one hosereel jet and a large fan to extinguish the fire, roughly 50 minutes later.

The man was then treated at the scene by paramedics for smoke inhalation.

Winchester firefighter Pete Locke said: “We were the first in attendance and then Eastleigh came to support.

“[The man] had had barbecue disposal trays and he put those in the oven, and the oven was on, and whatever was left in them overcooked and burned and he had fallen asleep.

“We waited an hour for the ambulance to turn up – it was the only one available apparently – because he had suffered smoke inhalation.”