A RESIDENT needed first aid after a fire in a three-storey building.

Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue crews were alerted to Vale Road in Boscombe, Bournemouth, at 12.23am today.

They discovered a fire in a ground floor kitchen and a resident was still in the property.

Man rescued after seven crews called to early hours fire

Crews from Redhill Park, Westbourne and Springbourne attended and the fire was extinguished.

The resident was treated before being handed over to the ambulance service.