RESIDENTS had to be evacuated from a high-rise block of flats yesterday.
Units from across the city were called to the fire at Telephone House in Briton Road, Southampton, just before 1pm.
The alarm was raised by a resident after the automatic fire alarm was triggered by smoke coming from a neighbouring property.
The first floor was evacuated while firefighters entered the building and broke into the flat where they found smoke coming from a pot of food that had been left on the cooker.
Fans were used to clear the floor of smokelogging but no significant damage had been caused by the fire itself.
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