A FIRE has damaged part of a flat in West Ealing due to some unattended cooking.

Two engines and 10 firefighters attended the scene on Berners Drive on Saturday (January 2) afternoon.

The fire brigade was notified at 14:03 and the blaze was under control within half an hour.

Part of the flat on the second floor of a three-storey block was damaged by the fire and one man was assisted from the property by the firefighters.

A London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: "Fires are more likely to start in the kitchen than in any other room in the home.

"Cooking should never be left unattended on the hob or grill and if you have to leave the kitchen, turn off the heat.

"Chip pans and cooking with hot oil can be really dangerous and the risk increases when you start frying food more than once.

"All it can take it for you to become distracted for a few seconds and your cooking oil can quickly go up in flames."

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This comes as another fire on the same day forced around 30 residents to be evacuated from a sheltered accommodation, also in West Ealing.