Pensioner rescued as fire starts in Wednesbury flat
An elderly woman was rescued after a fire broke out in the electricity meter at her flat today.
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Fire crews were called to the third floor flat at Russell House, Wednesbury at 1.30am.
Watch commander Keith Hampton from Tipton Fire Station said: "There was a fire in the electricity meter.
"The alarm was going off in the flat and we had to break in and we found a woman in her eighties."
The fire was confined to the meter which it burned out.
The woman was taken to Sandwell Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.
