Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service are praising the instinct and swift actions of two of our colleagues after they helped rescue an elderly man from a smoke-filled home in Crediton on Wednesday 11 February.
At around 12.30pm, Home Safety Technician Cassandra Darling, who is also an on-call firefighter at Crediton, and Home Safety and Partnership Officer Eleanor Tanner were visiting residents at Newcombe’s Housing near Jockey Hill, offering fire safety advice, when they heard an alarm sounding nearby.
Cassandra said: “I think it was my gut instinct or intuition, but I recognised it as a smoke alarm at a property in Lennard Road.
“I said to Eleanor, ‘that’s a smoke alarm sound’, so we rushed over. When we got there, we could smell smoke. We entered the property and helped the elderly man to safety from a smoke-filled room.”
Cassandra and Eleanor then contacted our fire control for assistance and stayed with him to provide care and reassurance.
Three appliances from Middlemoor and Danes Castle fire stations, attended the incident. They discovered that items left in a microwave had started to burn, filling the property with smoke. The microwave was removed, and the property was ventilated to clear the smoke.
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