Elderly man rescued after chip pan blaze in social housing flat

Crews from Hindley, Atherton, and Bolton attended the scene at The Welland, Westhoughton, at around 10.30am today (Friday).

Fortunately contractors for the social housing association were on site at the time and managed to pull the man, believed to be in his late 70s, to safety.

On arrival, fire crews dealt with the fire in the ground floor flat and administered oxygen to the man, who was taken to hospital as a precaution suffering from smoke inhalation.

The properties, managed by Sanctuary Housing, consists of blocks of six flats. No-one else was hurt in the incident and fire crews left the scene shortly afterwards.

Sanctuary is a leading housing and care provider which owns and manages more than 116,000 homes, making them one of the largest housing associations in the country.