Electric blanket fire (From The Northern Echo)
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Two women treated for smoke inhalation after Durham electric blanket fire
10:02am Saturday 12th January 2013 in News
By Catherine Priestley, Chief Reporter (Sedgefield)
FIREFIGHTERS were called to deal with a fire at a bungalow in the early hours of this morning. (Saturday, January 12)
At around 3.30am two appliances from Durham station attended the scene in Potters Bank, Durham, where an electric blanket had set alight and caused a small fire in a bedroom.
Two women suffering the effects of smoke inhalation were assessed at the scene by an ambulance crew but did not require hospital treatment.
