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Cooking fumes spark fire alert in York village

Firefighters were scrambled to a incident near York early this morning (Tuesday).

The callout to a home in Bishopthorpe came in at 12.05am.

Crews from York and Acomb, along with Acomb’s aerial ladder platform, responded to the smell of burning on the top floor of a residential building.

A North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service spokesperson said: “Crews carried out a thermal inspection using a thermal imaging camera and found no signs of fire.

“The cause of burning was discovered as cooking fumes from a downstairs flat. Crews gave advice.”