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A teenager received flash burns to his hands and face as a result of an oven catching fire at an address in West Lothian.
Two female members of staff were taken to hospital suffering from breathing difficulties following an ammonia leak at an Edinburgh care home in the early hours of the morning (2 February).
A concerned neighbour averted a more serious incident when he went to check on an elderly woman and discovered she had fallen in her bedroom causing a lamp to topple over and start a small fire.
Firefighters were called out to a cottage fire in Elphinstone yesterday morning (31st January).
The Chief Fire Officer of Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service, who has recently been seconded to work on the reform of the Scottish fire and rescue services, is set to retire.
The risks from candles were highlighted this weekend when firefighters had to attend two separate house fires accidentally sparked by candles.
Firefighters were called to a large-scale fire at a scrap yard in West Lothian in the early hours of Saturday morning (28 January).
A 99-year-old woman was treated for smoke inhalation after a fire in her Edinburgh home in the early hours of the morning (25 January).
A 26-year-old female suffered burns to her hands and smoke inhalation after trying to extinguish a blaze caused by a candle on Friday night (20th January).
A 50-year-old woman was treated for the effects of smoke inhalation by paramedics after her grill pan ignited yesterday evening (17th January).
Crews from Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service were called out twice in just over an hour in the early evening yesterday (16th January) to cooking related fires.
A smoke detector fitted by Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service averted a more serious blaze by alerting occupants to a fire in their first floor flat on Saturday afternoon. (14th January).
A 45-year-old man was pulled unconscious from a house fire by firefighters in Edinburgh last night (15 January).
Whilst many of us will have already forsaken our New Year resolutions Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service (LBFRS), has a simple suggestion for one that is easy to fulfil and may save your life.
Firefighters were called out to a fire at a terraced house on Mowbray Rise in Livingston at 10.06pm last night (10th January). The four occupants of the property escaped the blaze prior to the arrival of the Fire and Rescue Service.
Firefighters rescued a 60-year-old man when his bungalow went on fire yesterday afternoon (10 January).
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