Fire Safety Team Urge Public to Switch off Electrical Items Overnight

Crew Called to Kitchen Fire in Early Hours, Disaster Narrowly Averted

The Fire Safety Department have issued an important message to the Manx Public after disaster was narrowly averted yesterday in the early hours.

After being alerted by a member of the public, who smelt smoke coming from a property on Head Road Douglas, the Fire Crew managed to force entry into the building and extinguish a small fire in a ground kitchen.

It was started after a kettle switched on at the mains burnt out.

The message to the public is to ensure all electrical items should be switched off at the wall overnight.

  In this case there were no injuries due to the speed in which they were alerted to it, but had it been any later they say it could have caused a major blaze.