At 8:36am today, Sunday 21 April, two fire engines from Carlisle East and West stations were mobilised to reports of a domestic building fire on Cant Crescent, Carlisle.
A Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: “On arrival crews discovered a small kitchen fire and used two breathing apparatus and one hose reel jet to extinguish the fire and to rescue one male from the property.
“Crews were on scene for approximately fifty minutes.”