A WOMAN in her 80s had a lucky escape when discarded cigarettes sparked a fire at her home near Corfe Castle.
Paramedics treated the elderly woman – who had also suffered from a fall – for smoke inhalation, following the blaze in the bin at her house in Little Woolgarston.
Two crews of firefighters from Swanage, called to the scene off Sandy Hill Lane at around 12.50am yesterday by the ambulance service, used hose reel jets to put out the flames.
Swanage Fire Station manager Phil Burridge said: “She was a very lucky lady because this fire did not spread – it was only smouldering in one area of the room.
“It could have easily spread.”
The bin, surrounding carpet and some books were damaged, and the ground floor suffered heat and smoke damage.
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