A WOMAN has a lot to thank her neighbour for after she fell asleep cooking food.
The woman left a pan of food unattended on the cooker at her home in Bridgeman Street in Farnworth at about 11pm last night.
But luckily, a neighbour heard the alarm sounding and alerted her to it.
Firefighters arrived minutes later to find a smoke-filled kitchen, and managed to put out the fire.
Steve Coot, watch manager at Farnworth fire station, praised the neighbour's reactions.
He said: "Without the neighbour raising the alarm, the consequences would have been a lot worse.
"It proves that smoke alarms do the job.
"Sometimes people hear alarms, but do not react. In this instance, the neighbour was fantastic."
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