Overdone steak causes kitchen fire (From Echo)
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Overdone steak causes kitchen fire
10:34pm Thursday 18th March 2010 in
A HUNGRY householder returned home to find their steak dinner a little overdone after accidentally leaving the cooker on.
Fire crews from Southend were called to reports of smoke coming from a third floor flat in Warrior House, Southchurch Road at around 9.34pm tonight, Thursday, March 18.
The cause of the fire was found to be a steak accidentally left on a switched on cooker.
The flat suffered minor smoke damage as a result of the oversight.
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12:32am Fri 19 Mar 10