A Doncaster man needed hospital treatment for burns after a chip pan fire in his house on Tuesday night.

Firefighters were called to the incident on Stockil Road, Hyde Park, at around 11.30pm, after the occupants were alerted to the blaze by their smoke alarms. The chip pan burst into flames after having been left on the hob.

Fire crews quickly made the area safe, but the cooker and kitchen wall had sustained fire damage and the rest of the house was smoke logged. The man, in his 20s, suffered burns to his hands and smoke inhalation when he carried the burning pan out of the house, after his own attempts to put the fire out. He was treated by paramedics at the scene and transported to hospital, conscious and breathing. The other occupant, a female, was unharmed.

A fire service spokesman said: "This incident shows how dangerous chip pan fires can be. The vast majority of our accidental house fires start in the kitchen, and chip pan fires spread rapidly. We urge people to discard chip pans and either use oven chips or a thermostatically-controlled deep fat fryer."